. The life of the Greeks and Romans. 3io TEMPLE OF ISIS AT POMPEII a pseudo-dipteros (§ 10), frequently applied by the Eomans. Oneach of the long sides, between the two pairs of centre columns,(counting those of the portico) we see a small window growingnarrower towards the top, and adorned with an elegantcornice. According to Canina, from whom our woodcuts aretaken, the temple was built towards the end of the republican era,and dedicated most likely to the Sibylla Tiburtina or Albunea. The first and most natural enlargement was effected by theaddition of another column to the projecting one w
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. 3io TEMPLE OF ISIS AT POMPEII a pseudo-dipteros (§ 10), frequently applied by the Eomans. Oneach of the long sides, between the two pairs of centre columns,(counting those of the portico) we see a small window growingnarrower towards the top, and adorned with an elegantcornice. According to Canina, from whom our woodcuts aretaken, the temple was built towards the end of the republican era,and dedicated most likely to the Sibylla Tiburtina or Albunea. The first and most natural enlargement was effected by theaddition of another column to the projecting one which carriedthe portico. This form also occurs frequently. Besides theabove-mentioned temple of Fortuna Yirilis (at present S. Maria. Fig. 331. Egiziaca) in Rome, the temple of Isis at Pompeii shows thisenlarged form of the portico. The all but square size of thistemple reminds one of Yitruviuss rules for the Tuscan small oblong temple at Palmyra, most likely from the time ofAurelianus, shows the same form of the enlarged that of Isis at Pompeii, it has four columns in the facade,which, together with the two on each side, form the pronaos,almost equal in size to the cella. The design is more interesting where the portico projects bythree columns. This arrangement is shown in the beautiful TEMPLE OF JUPITER AT POMPEII. 3 temple of Antoninus and Faustina, the portico of which is carriedby six columns in front and three on each side, each of thecolumns consisting of one piece of green-veined marble. Thewalls of the cella, also preserved, consist of the stone calledcommonly travertine. Fig. 331 shows an unusually well preserved temple of thesame order at Nismes (the old Nemausus), in southern Fra
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