Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . Spalato, Detail of Court (Wlha). Si^alato (near), Aqueduct Plate Lvi THk pfEW YORF PUBLIC L^BrIrt ROMAN CITIES 317 at the Lateran and Vatican. It has perhaps thebest preserved cella of any temple in existence,so we can overlook its small size and rough finishand the loss of its portico. The basement isquite high and rather throws the building out ofscale. The decoration of the doorway is almostover rich, but the proportions are so effective asto exclude any barocco effect. The traditionwhich makes of it a temple of Esculapiusseems to be baseless and not ear
Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . Spalato, Detail of Court (Wlha). Si^alato (near), Aqueduct Plate Lvi THk pfEW YORF PUBLIC L^BrIrt ROMAN CITIES 317 at the Lateran and Vatican. It has perhaps thebest preserved cella of any temple in existence,so we can overlook its small size and rough finishand the loss of its portico. The basement isquite high and rather throws the building out ofscale. The decoration of the doorway is almostover rich, but the proportions are so effective asto exclude any barocco effect. The traditionwhich makes of it a temple of Esculapiusseems to be baseless and not earlier than thethirteenth century. The thunderbolts on thecorbels and the eagles seem to me good reasonsfor calling it a temple of Jupiter. This is quitea logical inference, because Jupiter was Diocle-tians patron: his epithet was Jovius in thesame w^ay as that of his colleague ]\Iaximian wasHerculeus. After Diocletians death the pal-ace was called Jovense. The photograph of the tunnel-vault w^hichcovers the cella shows a perfect example of richcoffered vaulting, bet
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