Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . Walks in Rome 127 Nero it was again burnt, was sumptuously rebuilt by the Flavianemperors. Once more burnt down under Commodus, 191, itwas restored for the last time by Julia Domna, empress of temple, thus rebuilt, was fairly perfect in 1489, but was de-molished in 1549. The broken columns and fragments foundaround the temple and elsewhere in the Forum, have been as faras possible brought together, 1899-1902. In the centre of thetemple occurs a deep trapezoidal pit, presumably for the ashes ofthe sacred logs. It thus ros
Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . Walks in Rome 127 Nero it was again burnt, was sumptuously rebuilt by the Flavianemperors. Once more burnt down under Commodus, 191, itwas restored for the last time by Julia Domna, empress of temple, thus rebuilt, was fairly perfect in 1489, but was de-molished in 1549. The broken columns and fragments foundaround the temple and elsewhere in the Forum, have been as faras possible brought together, 1899-1902. In the centre of thetemple occurs a deep trapezoidal pit, presumably for the ashes ofthe sacred logs. It thus rose from a lofty circular platform, abovethe reach of Tiber floods, was entirely cased in white marble, andit was approached by a flight of steps traceable on the easternside. It resembled the little circular temple of Dea Matuta seenon the Tiber bank. The central cella, in which the altar blazedday and night for over a thousand years, was encircled by a doubleperistyle of twenty fluted Corinthian columns apiece, su;;porting agraceful cupola covered with
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