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The Temple of Janus was a small temple just large enough to house a bronze statue of the god. A small portion of the temple's brick structure can be found beside the ruins of the Basilica Aemilia, along the path of the Argiletum in the Roman Forum, [ 4 ] so much of what we know about the temple visually comes from Roman scholars and artifacts.
The "Temple of Janus" is a Romano-Celtic religious structure located in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, France, to the North-West of the ancient city of Augustodunum. The temple lies in the center of a vast sanctuary, whose extent and complexity was revealed by excavations conducted between 2013 and 2016.
The temple was built by Gaius Duilius in 3rd century BC after the 260 BC Roman victory at Mylae. [1] [2] It was probably built over an earlier shrine.[3] [2] Allegedly, [4] the Senate was forbidden from meeting in the temple because their decree that the Fabii should go to the siege of Veii was made in a temple of Janus, although some scholars consider this apocryphal. [2]
The temple of Juno Sospita was located between the temple of Spes and that of Janus: on its ruins, towards the end of the 11th century, the current church was founded. Built around 195 BC by Gaius Cornelius Cethegus , it was a peripteros ionic temple, with six columns on the facade, three rows of columns on the front side and two on the back side.
The Emperor Augustus Closes the Doors of the Temple of Janus (c. 1655-1657) by Carlo Maratta. The Emperor Augustus Closes the Doors of the Temple of Janus or The Peace of Augustus is a c.1655-1657 oil on canvas painting by Carlo Maratta, one of nine works commissioned by Louis Phélypeaux, Seigneur of La Vrillière for the gilded gallery at his new hôtel de La Vrillière in Paris.
Temple of Janus (Autun), the Gallo-Roman temple, not truly dedicated to Janus, located in Autun, France Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Temple of Janus .
In Roman religion, Terminus was the god who protected boundary markers; his name was the Latin word for such a marker. Sacrifices were performed to sanctify each boundary stone, and landowners celebrated a festival called the "Terminalia" in Terminus' honor each year on February 23.
It appears to be part of the text as a religious drama recited as a temple ritual. Here it is used simply as a magic spell. [47] 79. Spell for becoming an elder of the tribunal. [48] 80. Making transformation into a god and giving light and darkness. [48] 81A. Spell for being transformed into a lotus. [49] 81B. Spell for being transformed into ...