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The Temple of Jupiter Tonans, situated also on the Clivus Capi tolinue, was built by Augustus, and is supposed to have been restored by Septimiue Severus and Caracalla. The portico was hexastyle, of the Corinthian order, and of white Luna marble. The column" are deeply fluted. Upon the frieze are carved instrument' of sacrifice, and the decorations which remain indicate that the building was highly ornamented.
Of the Temple of Concord which stood near the temple of Jupiter Tonans, there remain only the ruins of the cella, which was originally covered with giallo antico and pavonazzetto. The pavement was formed of slabs of the same material, and numerous fragments disco vered in the late excavations prove that it was profusely enriched with ornamental carvings and statues, and that it was also destroyed by fire.
The Temple of Antoninue Pius is in the Forum of Antoninus, now the Piazza della Pietist, and at a short distance from the Column of IL Aurelius Antoninns. Eleven large Corinthian columns, which are much injured, remain on the north side, and support a white marble architrave ; the rest of the entablature, being much ruined, was restored with stucco. The columns have been walled together, and form the front of the present Custom-house, in the court of which there are several fragments of vaulting adorned with sunk panels.
The Temple of Antoninus and Faustina was erected by the senate to tho emperor and his wife in the Forum Romanum. The two sides of the cella, once clothed with marble, remain, as well as the magnificent marble entablature over them. The hexastyle portico, with the return columns of the Corinthian order, each of one single piece of Carystian or Cipollino marble, still supports a considerable part of the entablature. In the frieze are griffins, candelabra, and other ornaments, in a fine style of art. On the ruins of the cella has been erected the church of San Lorenzo in Miranda.
The Temple of Romulus and Remus is a circular temple in the Forum Romanum, near the temple of Antoninus and Faustins. In the year 527, this building was used as a vestibule to the church of Suit' Cosmo and Damian°, erected by Felix IV. Urban VIII. applied
the present Etruscan bronze door, found at Perugia, and placed the two antique porphyry oolumns, with their entablatnres, in their present al medusa.
The Temple of Peat., called also the Basilica of Constantine, was built by Muendua, and after his death dedicated by Constantine.
This edit" which consisted of three naves, has the northern-most still in good preservation, and divided into three great arches, em bracing the whole length of the nave. The centre arch, at a later period, was altered into the form of a tribune. The vaultinge of all three are decorated with enormous sunk panels and stuccoed °me mento, and the wells with niches. The southernmost nave was aimilar, but without a tribune. All except the indications of the piers have disappeared, as well as the great central nave, at the extremity of whkh was the principal tribune, of which there are only a few frag ments of the vaulted ceiling on the ground. Winding brick staircases led up to the roof ; one is still almost entire. The building was 300 feet long and 220 feet wide. The principal façade faced the Colosseum, and part of an external arcade remains in this direction. The pavement was of eiallo antics, poronaszetto, and cipollino. At a later period this building was converted into a Christian church, at which time an entrance ass funned towards the Palatine, on the Via Sacra.
The Temple of Minerva Medics was a circular domed temple of brick, erected probably about the time of Diocletian. The eiroutn (emote has nine niches for statues, seven of which have been found the ruins at different times. Only a part of its bare wells and small all portion of the dome, with the buttresses to secure it against a lateral thrust, now remain.
The Temple of Nerve, situated in the forum of Nerve, was conse crated by Trajan to the memory of Nerve; it was one of the most sumptuous edifices in Rome. Only three columns and a pilaster, lArtly buried in the ground, on the south side, now remain.