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Roman Ruins, Autun: One of the two remaining walls of cella

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posted on 2017-06-30, 00:00 authored by G. Massiot & cie
The other wall is behind, perpendicular, forming the corner.\u000a\u000aOutside the city, two walls of the 'Temple of Janus' (2nd century AD) stand 24 m high. It was a temple of Romano-Celtic type, having a square central cella of petit appareil (a facing of courses of small squared blocks of stone) with three windows on each side and a surrounding ambulatory. Aerial photography in 1976 detected adjacent buildings of the rural sanctuary, including a theatre.

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1910-01-01

Date Modified

2017-06-30

Spatial Coverage

Autun|+46.961264+4.288545|Autun, Burgundy, France

Temporal Coverage

before or circa 1910

Cultural Context

Imperial (Roman)

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