When was this temple constructed?
Date: Begun ca.AD
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] To whom was it dedicated and how is this shown?
Identification of the cult of the Temple as that of Bacchus (the Greek
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] ) is uncertain
* it is based on sculptural reliefs representing the god's
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] and scenes from his
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] which decorate the entrances to the cella and to the inner shrine within the cella.
What larger complex was it part of?
The Temple stands close to the major temple of the site, that of
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] , some of whose features it shares, although on a slightly smaller scale. It was built in
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] limestone.
How is this temple similar to the one at Nimes?
Superficially, the Temple of 'Bacchus' is comparable to the earlier, Hellenised Italic type of temple encountered in the 'Maison Carree' at Nimes . It has:
* a high
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] (c.5m)
* a deep entrance
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] * a
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] aspect
In what way is it different from the one at Nimes?
In detail it reveals important differences, some of which reveal
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] , rather than Roman, influence. Everything, of course is on a grander scale:
* the entrance stairway on the east rises in
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] flights to a porch
* a front row of unfluted
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] columns masks a further row of
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] Corinthian columns
* a further column is set in front of each of the projecting
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] -walls of the cella (the antae)
* the exterior colonnade of unfluted columns is not
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] (as in the 'Maison Carree), but free-standing, more in the manner of a
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] temple
Internally what parts of the original structure and decoration are preserved?
* an internal colonnade of engaged
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] is set over
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] , flanking niches on two levels
* this creates a series of recessed planes which lends to the interior walls a sense of
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] that is encountered in the very different but nearly contemporary Pantheon in
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] What feature shows Eastern influence in the planning of the Temple?
An important feature, which reveals Eastern influence in the planning of the Temple, is the inner shrine (
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] ) where the cult statue was housed:
* set at a higher level at the western end of the cella, it was approached by a set of
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] steps running the full breadth of the cult room
* the shrine itself was raised on its own
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] , and entered via a further staircase
Why do we have to guess at many of the details?
Beyond this, many of the details in the reconstructed view are conjectural, because of the loss of the original material:
* the
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] statue has not survived
* nor have the statues which presumably decorated the
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] of the cella walls
* except for one of a seated
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] * much of the minor decorative
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] sculpture, is still preserved
What unusual features were there in the interior of the Temple?
The Corinthian half-columns, the canopy over the stature and the flat wooden ceiling with
150 adyton birth coffers columns Corinthian cult Dionysus engaged fluted frontal goddess Greek Jupiter life local movement niches nine pilasters podium porch relief Rome side three [?] inset.