#roman monument

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Captives’ Facade 

Corinth, Greece

2nd century CE

   An ornate two story facade located in front of the early basilica flanks the Lechaion Road between the North Shops and the Monumental Gate. The upper story consisted of a row of six larger-than-life-size figures standing against Corinthian piers. The two best preserved pillars represent men in eastern dress wearing Phrygian caps. Two heads of women from the same monument indicate that the males were accompanied by female figures. They may have been personifications of geographical places. The monument has been thought to commemorate the victories of the Emperor Septimius Severus over the Parthians in CE 197.

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The Roman Forum, Italy

Italy | Europe | Archive

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The Pantheon

Rome, Italy

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This Old Town

The present church was built in 1895. But when the old medieval church was demolished, 80 large foundation blocks from the Roman period were discovered. They were arranged so as to serve as foundations for a monument anterior to the medieval church, and were all that remained of the Merovingian church that had been established here in the mid-5th Century. 

Excavations revealed 4 types of blocks forming 3 monuments, a 9 meter tall votive pillar to the Roman God Jupiter, a polygonal temple building and a sacred altar and temple dedicated to the Goddess Minerva. They date to the late 2nd Century AD.

These Roman blocks can be seen in the Minerva museum in Yzeures sur Creuse. This nice little  museum is just a few steps from the site where the temples were originally erected almost 2000 years ago.

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Aqueduct of the Miracles, in Mérida, Spain.