. The life of the Greeks and Romans. ico formed by six columns infront and three on each side. Thebeams, in perfect preservation, rest-ing on the wall and the columns,show a frieze with beautiful bas-relief ornaments. The old pedi-ments with their beautiful cornicesare also preserved. The interior ofthe temple is at present used asa museum, in which the numerousantiquities found in and nearMsmes are kept. A further development of the same principle of Roman archi-tecture appears in the large temple of Jupiter at Pompeii, whichat the same time may be considered as one of the finest examplesof t
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. ico formed by six columns infront and three on each side. Thebeams, in perfect preservation, rest-ing on the wall and the columns,show a frieze with beautiful bas-relief ornaments. The old pedi-ments with their beautiful cornicesare also preserved. The interior ofthe temple is at present used asa museum, in which the numerousantiquities found in and nearMsmes are kept. A further development of the same principle of Roman archi-tecture appears in the large temple of Jupiter at Pompeii, whichat the same time may be considered as one of the finest examplesof this style. Fig. 332 (scale 24 Par. feet) shows the plan, a restored section, of the building. The protrusion of theportico is increased by a further column, six columns standing infront and four on each side. In front of the portico (b) lies aplatform, with steps leading up to it (a), by means of which thewhole front part was made equal in length to the back part, inaccordance with Yitruviuss rules for the Tuscan temple. The. 3^2 TEMPLE OF JUPITER AT POMPEII. position of the temple from north to south also accords withthese rules. Through the door which lay exactly in the centreof the building one entered the cella, on both sides of which therewere galleries of eight Ionic columns each (//). In front of theback wall of the cella lay a kind of substructure containing threesmall cellas (d). The Ionic columns (as appears from Fig. 333)seem to have carried a gallery of Korinthian columns, up to whichled a staircase in the back wall of the cella (Fig. 332, e). Thesubstructure (d) may have supported a statue, the head of which,in the character of Jupiter, has been discovered there. The threecellse most likely served to keep documents and treasures, as wasfrequently the case in temples. The Walls of the cella were richly
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