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Temple of Diana, Nimes: Detail, interior, west wall with niche and passages that led to an upper floor

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posted on 2017-06-30, 00:00 authored by G. Massiot & cie
A monumental complex of buildings was also begun around the spring of Nemausus in the Augustan period. This included a collecting pool, nymphaeum and temple precinct. The sanctuary buildings were enclosed to east, south and west by a large portico. Adjoining the west portico is the 'Temple of Diana', a building unlikely to have been a temple, although its unusual character makes its purpose uncertain. The fa\u00E7ade, with two large niches on either side of the entrance steps, fronts a central hall, barrel-vaulted in stone, with engaged pilasters dividing the sides into five bays containing niches set in aediculae with alternating triangular and segmental pediments. At the west end, opposite the entrance, there was a chamber, three metres square, and passages leading to an upper floor. The use of cut stone vaulting and the aediculae are more typical of Roman architecture in the East, whence the builders therefore seem to have come. The ornament indicates a date in the 2nd century AD.

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Alt Title

Cathédral de la Major

Date Created

1910-01-01

Date Modified

2017-06-30

Spatial Coverage

Marseilles, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France: Place de la Major +43.299235+5.364683 Marseilles

Temporal Coverage

before or circa 1910

Cultural Context

Imperial (Roman)

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