. Pompeii : its life and art . by a relief with a representation of the north side of thejForum, found on the base of a chapel of the Lares in thehouse of the wealthy Pompeian, L. Caecilius Jucundus. left we see the arch near the fac,ade and a strip of walljconnecting it with the temple ; next a corner of the platform!with an equestrian statue; then a flight of steps, and the;. Fig. 19.— Ruins of the temple of Jupiter. front of the platform with an altar at the middle ; finally theother flight of steps and another equestrian statue in a posi-tion corresponding with that of the first. Th
. Pompeii : its life and art . by a relief with a representation of the north side of thejForum, found on the base of a chapel of the Lares in thehouse of the wealthy Pompeian, L. Caecilius Jucundus. left we see the arch near the fac,ade and a strip of walljconnecting it with the temple ; next a corner of the platform!with an equestrian statue; then a flight of steps, and the;. Fig. 19.— Ruins of the temple of Jupiter. front of the platform with an altar at the middle ; finally theother flight of steps and another equestrian statue in a posi-tion corresponding with that of the first. The columns shownin the relief do not agree in number or style with those of thefacade of the temple, but such inaccuracies are common inancient representations of buildings, and there can be no doubtthat the temple of Jupiter is represented; the relief has, infact, been used in making our restoration of the arch at the left(Fig. 13). Both the portico and the cella no doubt had a coffered ceil-ing. Just in front of the doorway, which was fifteen Romanfeet wide, are the large stones with holes for the pivots onwhich the massive double doors swung (indicated in Fig. 18); the THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER 65 doors here were not placed in the doorway, but in front of it,and were besides somewhat larger, so that the effect was ren-dered more imposing when they were shut. The ornamentation
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