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Title: Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884
Subjects: Art, Ancient Archaeology
Publisher: London, Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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der in Rome. Of the Composite order, though a Romaninvention, there are no examples among Roman temples. The othertemples at Rome, the existing remains of which are but few, are thetemple of Concord, the temple of Venus and Rome, the temple ofMinerva Medica, the temple of iEsculapius, the temple of Remus. Of circular temples the Pantheon is the most famous. It has 30 IIANDBOOK OF ARCHIEOLOGY. been admitted to be the finest temple of the ancient world. It wasdedicated by Agrippa to all the gods. It is a circular building, witha portico in front composed of sixteen Corinthian columns, eightcolumns of these are in front, and the remaining eight are arrangedbehind them. The interior of the temple is circular, covered with adome, one of the features for which modern architecture is indebtedto the Eomans. The internal diameter is 142 feet. The height fromthe pavement to the summit is 143 feet. A remarkable feature in thisbuilding is the central opening of the top, about 28 feet in diameter,
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TEMPLE OF THE SIBYL AT TIVOLI. to admit light into the interior. The temples of Vesta and of theSibyl at Tivoli were circular peripteral. The circular cella of thetemple of Vesta is surrounded by a peristyle of twenty Corinthiancolumns. The entablature and ancient roof have disappeared. It issupposed to have been originally covered by a dome, which restedon the circular wall of the cella. The temple at Tivoli is supposedto have been also dedicated to Vesta. Its cella was surrounded by a TEMPLES. 31 peristyle of eighteen Corinthian pillars, ten of which remain. It is21-J feet in diameter. The examples of Eoman architecture exhibited in the temples ofPalmyra and Baalbec are not to be surpassed for extent and magni-ficence. The buildings of Palmyra, whose ruins yet remain, wereevidently built at very different times, but the prevalence of theCorinthian order must make them rank as Eoman structures. Thetemple of the Sun, the chief building among the ruins, is in anenclosed space 660 feet

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