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PAEZ  . left . The capitals are like those of the Basilica, but the details are differently worked out . In front of this temple stood a sacrificial altar as long as the temple itself . The most famous of the temples of Paestum, the so-called temple of Neptune, comes next in point of date (about 420 B.C.) . It is a hexastyle peripteros with fourteen columns on each side, and is remarkably well-preserved, both pediments and the epistyle at the sides being still in situ . No traces of the decoration of the pediments and metopes have been preserved . The cella, the outer walls of which have to a great extent disappeared, has two internal rows of seven columns 41 ft. in diameter, upon which rests a simple epistyle, supporting a row of smaller columns, so that the interior of the cella was in two storeys . The Temple of Peace is a building of the Roman period of the and 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 theatre and amphitheatre (?) have also been found . The circuit of the town walls, well built of squared blocks of travertine, and 16 ft. thick, of the Greek period, is almost entire; they are about 3 M. in circumference, enclosing an irregular, roughly rectangular area . There were four gates, that on the east with a single arched opening being well-preserved .

Outside the

north gate is a street of tombs, in some of which were found. arms, vases and fine mural paintings (now in the Naples Museum) . The following table gives the 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 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 .