VIII.7.31 Pompeii Foro Triangolare,
Tempio Dorico, Tempio Greco, Tempio di Nettuno o Tempio di Minerva e di Ercole.
Triangular Forum, Doric Temple, Greek Temple, Temple of Neptune or Temple of Minerva and Hercules.
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Pompeii. Doric Temple. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Bust of young satyr, Terracotta, First half of Ist century
BC. (Busto di giovane satiro,
Terracotta, prima meta I sec. a.C.)
On display in exhibition in Palaestra entitled – “L’altra Pompei, vite comuni all’ombra del Vesuvio”. March 2024.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii. April 2023.
Terracotta frieze found in the area of the Triangular Forum, now on display in “Campania Romana” gallery in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii. April 2023.
Detail from terracotta
frieze of battle among horsemen, found in the area of the Triangular Forum. Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii. April 2023. Descriptive
card from display in “Campania Romana” gallery. Photo courtesy of
Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii. February 2021.
Display of terracotta
ex-votos of female heads, on display in Antiquarium. Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC
BY-NC-SA).
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Information notice-board in Antiquarium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii. February
2021. Metope of Ixion, on display in Antiquarium. Photo
courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).
VIII.7.31 Pompeii. December 2006. The punishment of Ixion on the wheel.
The only surviving metope (an architectural element from a frieze) of the Temple.
Photographed in storage in the VII.7.29 Forum Granary Store.
See Dobbins, J. J. and Foss, P. W., 2008. The World of Pompeii. Oxford: Routledge. (p. 78).
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018.
This group has been identified as Athena, perhaps Hermes, and a half-naked figure. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii. December 2006. Detail of the punishment of Ixion on the wheel.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018.
Detail of Athena, with shield, spear and holding tools, maybe hammer. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, February 2021.
Detail of Athena, with shield, spear and holding tools, maybe hammer, on display in Antiquarium.
Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Detail of central figure, perhaps Hermes. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Detail of half-naked figure, Ixion on the wheel. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Exhibition of finds from Triangular Forum and Doric Temple. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Information notice-board. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Exhibit of fragments discovered in the excavations. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Detail of fragment of a shield. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Fragment of the shield. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Display information notice-board. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Drawing of temple from display information board. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Display information notice-board.
The temple was refurbished at the end of the 6th Century BC and a large number of terracotta fragments have been found from this phase.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Roof reconstruction drawing from information notice-board.
On the long side ran a cornice (sima) with the heads of roaring lions as waterspouts.
On the ramparts was a flat band with a painted meander whose base took the form of the body of a snake with heads facing towards the upper corner of the pediment.
A revetment plaque with guilloche (an engraved pattern of spirals, intertwining bands etc.) in relief protected the wooden beams of the roof.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Snake head from roof, front view. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Snake head from roof, side view. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018.
Roaring lion water-spout with traces of colour and meander pattern above. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Architectural roof elements. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Architectural roof elements and spiral pattern with traces of colour. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Architectural terracotta’s from the Samnite phase were brightly painted.
Antiquarium information card showing hypothetical colour reconstruction based on surviving material. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta from Doric Temple.
Top: Part of a roof (sima) decorated
with female faces alternating with palmettes.
Lower
left: decorative elements of the roof (antefixes) with the head of Athena and
Hercules.
Lower
right: Roof tiles decorated with sphinxes and vegetal motifs.
Photographed in the Antiquarium. Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC
BY-NC-SA).
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Detail of the roof elements with heads of Athena and Hercules, and lion. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Architectural antefix of a female head with traces of colour. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Architectural antefix of the head of Minerva. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii, May 2018. Architectural antefix of a head.
Female heads and heads of Minerva and Hercules alternated in the temple decoration. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VIII.7.31 Pompeii. August 1965. Heads on display in the Pompeii Antiquarium. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.