The church of SMaria antiqua . Fig. 7.—The Temple at Gabii. colour. The front and side walls are the thickness ot a single block(o-585-0595 m.) and 14 courses are preserved, each 0*55-0*595 m. in height,giving a total height (as at present existing) of 28 feet. The blocks are ofvarious lengths. The whole cella 2 measures 13*54 by 8*38 m. inside: thedoorway is 2*38 m. wide. Spunvalls project 2*14 m. on each side of theback wall, which is 1*15 m. thick. The floor was paved with white mosaicof palombino 3 (now almost completely destroyed), assigned by those 1 See also Tacitus, Ann. xv. 43. 4. 2 S
The church of SMaria antiqua . Fig. 7.—The Temple at Gabii. colour. The front and side walls are the thickness ot a single block(o-585-0595 m.) and 14 courses are preserved, each 0*55-0*595 m. in height,giving a total height (as at present existing) of 28 feet. The blocks are ofvarious lengths. The whole cella 2 measures 13*54 by 8*38 m. inside: thedoorway is 2*38 m. wide. Spunvalls project 2*14 m. on each side of theback wall, which is 1*15 m. thick. The floor was paved with white mosaicof palombino 3 (now almost completely destroyed), assigned by those 1 See also Tacitus, Ann. xv. 43. 4. 2 See plan, Fig. 8. 3 A white marble from Asia Minor (marmor coralliticum, Plin. II N. xxxvi. 62). 184 The British School at Rome. who saw it to the time of Hadrian : the tesserae are 5 to 10 mm. square by15 mm. deep, and not very carefully set. At a distance of 1S7 m. from. o o o o Metres 0 1 1 1 o o o 000000 Fig. 8.—Plan of Temple, Gabii. the back wall of the cella is a stone ledge in which Nibby and Abekenwere able to trace holes, intended to support a railing with three entrancespaces, which divided the cella from the sacrarium proper, the latter being Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.—I. 185 Floor of Temple CellWail115-44^! 90S .•45 at a slightly higher level. On the outside of the back wall is seen the finesimple podium moulding (Fig. 9). The diameter of a drum of one of the columns is 078 m. : the flutingsare o-o6 in depth, and -14 from centre to centre. There were probably sixin front of the temple and six on each side, but none were found in situ,and the stylobate has disappeared. The temple was surrounded on three sides by Doric colonnades(Visconti, Monumenta Gabini, tav. i. B. 2), the columns of which measured042 in diameter. At the end (according to Visconti, p. 15 n. 38 andfrontispiece: no traces of them now exist) a semi
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