Temple of Vespasian and Titus

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Temple of Vespasian and Titus
Temple of Vespasian and Titus, flanked on the left by the Temple of Saturn

The Temple of Vespasian and Titus or Vespasianstempel ( Latin templum Vespasiani et Titi ) was an ancient temple in the Roman Forum in Rome .

The remains of this temple of the Corinthian order , which are still visible today , three 15.20 meter high columns in its vestibule, are located directly in front of the base of the ancient tabular room . The building used a narrow gap between the Concordia Temple and the Saturn Temple , was only about 22 meters wide and 33 meters long. Two separate cult rooms were used to accommodate the statues of both rulers.

The temple was built from 79 AD under Titus for his deified father, but was only consecrated under Domitian around 87 AD - now to Vespasian and Titus. The original one-line inscription only mentioned Vespasian. The second line referred to a renewal under Septimius Severus and Caracalla . Only a few letters from the end of the inscription remain today.

The temple was a hexastyler, ie with six columns at the front-provided, prostylos . The remains of columns , capitals and entablature , which were rebuilt in 1811, come mainly from the Severan period; remnants of the entablature are also exhibited in the tabularium.

literature

  • Filippo Coarelli (Ed.): Divus Vespasianus. Il bimillenario dei Flavi. Exhibition catalog Rome March 7, 2009-10. January 2010. Mondadori Electa, Rome 2009, ISBN 8-8370-6811-5 .
  • Stefano De Angeli: Templum Divi Vespasiani. Rome 1992, ISBN 8-8781-3400-7 .
  • Stefano De Angeli: Vespasianus, Divus, Templum. In: Eva Margareta Steinby (Ed.): Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae. Vol. 5. Edizioni Quasar, Rome 1999, pp. 124-125.
  • Samuel Ball Platner , Thomas Ashby : A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome . Oxford University Press, London 1929, p. 556 ( online ).

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ CIL 06, 938 : Divo Vespasiano Augusto s (enatus) p (opulus) q (ue) R (omanus) / Imp (eratores) Caess (ares) Severus et Antoninus Pii Felic (es) Augg (usti) restituer (unt) .

Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 34.3 "  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 1.8"  E