Roman temple (Vernègues)

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Temple and chapel in Vernègues

The Roman temple in Vernègues , a French commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region , was built in the second half of the 1st century BC. Built in BC. The temple has been a protected architectural monument since 1840 , a monument historique .

Location and description

The Roman temple is located on the vineyard called Château-Bas on the road between Vernègues and Cazan.

The remains of the rising architecture of the small, Corinthian podium temple , which stands on a substructure lying on the slope, consist of a high column with twenty fluting , which rises on a plinthless Attic base . It has a Corinthian capital with wreaths of acanthus leaves . With its triangular eyelet formation at the tips of the leaves, the capital follows the shape of the late Republican period . The architrave had three fascia, which can be seen as an indication of the temple's Augustan period . The ante capitals of the temple, which followed a prostyle floor plan , were also of the Corinthian order.

In the Romanesque period , the small chapel Saint-Cézaire de Château-Bas was added to the eastern wall of the temple. Stones from the temple were reused as spoils .

  • Pillar and Antenna Pilaster
  • East wall from the inside
  • Column capital
  • View into the podium of the temple from the north

literature

  • Michel Clerc: Le Temple romain du Vernègues . In: Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Marseille. Series 1, Volume 17, 1908, pp. 129-164.
  • Albert Grenier : Manual d'archéologie gallo-romaine. Volume 3. Picard, Paris 1958, pp. 280-285.
  • Pierre Gros : Les temples géminés de Glanum. Etude preliminaire . In: Revue archéologique de Narbonnaise . Volume 13, 1981, pp. 144. 147.
  • Pierre Gros: La France gallo-romaine. Nathan, Paris 1991, p. 148.
  • Anne Roth-Congès: L'acanthe dans le décor architectonique proto-augustéen en Provence . Revue archéologique de Narbonnaise . Volume 16, 1983, pp. 124-126.
  • Ralf Schenk: The Corinthian Temple until the end of the Principate of Augustus . Verlag Marie Leidorf, Espelkamp 1997, pp. 112–118 with notes 913, 936, 952.
  • Charles Texier , Richard Popplewell Pullan: L'Architecture byzantine ou recueil de monuments des premiers temps du christianisme en Orient . Day & Son, London 1864, pp. 205–207, plates 11–13.

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ^ Michel Clerc: Le Temple romain du Vernègues . In: Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Marseille. Series 1, Volume 17, 1908, pp. 129-164; Ernst Robert Fiechter : Journal for the history of architecture. Vol. 8, 1924, p. 66 indicates the number of fluting as 24.
  2. ^ So Pierre Gros: Les temples géminés de Glanum. Etude preliminaire . In: Revue archéologique de Narbonnaise . Volume 13, 1981, pp. 144. 147.

Coordinates: 43 ° 40 ′ 55 "  N , 5 ° 11 ′ 49.7"  E