. The life of the Greeks and Romans. 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
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. 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. painted, as were also the columns of the portico, consisting of floor of the temple was adorned with mosaic. The templeitself lay in the most beautiful part of the Forum. A tasteful andclever reconstruction of both it and the Forum is found in GaudysPompeiana (PL 51). In connection with these specimens of the Roman prostylos wemention the temple of Concordia in Pome, differing in designfrom all other similar buildings. It was built in consequence of avow made by Camillus after he had spoken in the senate infavour of the claims of the plebeians to the consular dignity. Itwas intended as a symbol of the restored concord between patri-cians and plebeians. It lay at the northern end of the Forum TEMPLE OF CONCORDIA IN ROME. 3^3 Romanum, close to the enormous foundations of the Tabularium(see § 81). The remains found on the spot do, however, notbelong to the older temple of Concordia, but to the splendidtemple built by Tiberius on its site. Only the large substructureof the templ
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