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 ROMAN ARCHITECTURE. 121 Pompeii also possessed an important Forum. The remarkable colonnaded streets at Palmyra and Damascus, Antioch, Bosra and elsewhere in Syria, and Asia Minor may also be best mentioned here. nmm-" 1 TI!flJ/!N5 COLUMN 2 iKUU OLPW i TEMPLE Of VENUS GENETRIX 4 T. OF MitRS ULTOR (5 COLS, s, PILASTER SIANDW 5 TEMPLE OF MINERVA 6 TEMPLE OF PEACE 7 SITE OF THE BASILICA /EMELIA 8 TEMPLE OF ANTONINUS i FAU5TIN/1 9 TEMPLE OF ROMOLUS 10 BASILICA OF CONSTANTINt 11 TEMPLE Of VENUS i, ROME 12 TME C0L055EUH IJARCn OF CONSTAKTINE WARCH OF TITOS 15 HOUSE OF THE VESTAL VIRGINS 16 TEMPLE OF VESTA 17 ARCH OF AUGUSTUS 18 TEMPLE OF D1VU5 JULIUS 19 TEMPLE OF CASTOR » POLLUX (JCCLS.LEFT) 20 BASILICA JULIA 21 COLUMN OF PH0CA5 22 ARCH OF 5EPTIMIU5 SEVERU5 23 ROSTRA 24 T. OF SATURN (8 COLUMNS STANDING) ast OF VESPASIAN (3 COLUMNS STANDING) 26 TEMPLE Of CONCORD. ) 50 100 200 300 400 SOO ^ 47- TEMPLES. Note. — The oyders are described under the Comparative table (page 167). The Roman temples were the result of the amalgamation of the Etruscan and Greek types, for they resembled in many respects Greek examples, but their prostyle arrangement and the use of the podium was derived from Etruscan temples. The plans shown on No. 18 give some of the types used, and others are referred to later on (Nos. 49, 50, 52, 53 and 57). The charac- teristic temple is known as pseudo-peripteral (page 58), and had no side colonnades as was usual in Greek examples, the order of columns being attached to the flank walls and arranged as a prostyle portico towards the front only. Steps were provided at the principal end, between projecting wing walls, which often supported groups of statuary, and were continued along the flanks and back of the temple as a podium or continuous pedestal (Nos. 18 G, 49, 50) (page 167). Whereas Greek peripteral temples were normally twice as long as their width, the Roman examples were very much shorter. The size of the cella was frecjuently