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P See also:PAEZ . See also:left . The capitals are like those of the See also:Basilica, but the details are differently worked out . In front of this See also:temple stood a sacrificial See also:altar as See also:long as the temple itself . The most famous of the temples of See also:Paestum, the so-called temple of See also:Neptune, comes next in point of date (about 420 B.C.) . It is a See also:hexastyle peripteros with fourteen columns on each See also:side, and is remarkably well-preserved, both pediments and the See also:epistyle at the sides being still in situ . No traces of the decoration of the pediments and metopes have been preserved . The See also:cella, the See also:outer walls of which have to a See also:great extent disappeared, has two See also:internal rows of seven columns 41 ft. in See also:diameter, upon which rests a See also:simple epistyle, supporting a See also:row of smaller columns, so that the interior of the cella was in two storeys . The Temple of See also:Peace is a See also:building of the See also:Roman See also:period of the and See also:century B.C., with six Doric columns on the front, eight on the sides and none at the back; it was excavated in 183o and is now entirely covered up . Traces of a Roman See also:theatre and See also:amphitheatre (?) have also been found . The See also:circuit of the See also:town walls, well built of squared blocks of travertine, and 16 ft. thick, of the See also:Greek period, is almost entire; they are about 3 M. in circumference, enclosing an irregular, roughly rectangular See also:area . There were four See also:gates, that on the See also:east with a single arched opening being well-preserved . Outside the See also:north See also:gate is a See also:street of tombs, in some of which were found. arms, vases and See also:fine mural paintings (now in the See also:Naples Museum) . The following table gives the See also:chief dimensions of the four temples described above in feet 3a a w c O E va a° e, 8 a-' v E as a 8 ~ L' a a q; xV z" aa° QU Basilica (so- 178 8o4 1371 441 44 21 50 called) . Temple of ,o8 471 781 251 61 191 34 See also:Ceres (so - called) . Temple of 197 8o 1494 441 41 28 36 Neptune (so-called) . Temple of 84 441 481 28 3 ? 20 Peace (so- called) . (T . |
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