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Doric
Temple
It was built in the VI century
B.C., when Pompeii, even
though it wasnt a Greek polis, was submitted to the maritime
hegemony and the influence of Cumę
and Neįpolis.
In fact, the foundations of the area of the temple
underline important rests of the architectonic terracotta decoration of
the upper parts of the building. To the cult of Hercules,
which was devoted the temple, it was also associated the one of Minerva.
The base measures 28 x 21 m., and the traces of varied remaking
suffered in the Samnite period are clearly showed; it became, in Roman
period, a sacello. In
the temple there was an exedra
with sun-dial, put by the same mayors that erected the one in the Temple
of Apollo.
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