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Another view. The Apollo of Veii is a life-size painted terracotta Etruscan statue of Aplu (), designed to be placed at the highest part of a temple.The statue was discovered in the Portonaccio sanctuary of ancient Veii, Latium, in what is now central Italy, and dates from c. 510-500 BC.
The Portonaccio Sanctuary of Minerva was the first Tuscan–type, i.e., Etruscan, temple erected in Etruria (about 510 BCE). [1] The reconstruction proposed for it in 1993 by Giovanni Colonna together with Germano Foglia, presents a square 60 feet (18 m) construction on a low podium (about 1.8 metres, considering the 29 cm foundation) and divided into a pronaos with two columns making up the ...
Apollo of Veii, dating from around 510 BC, in the Villa Giulia museum of Rome. Fidenae and Veii were said to have again been defeated by Rome in the 7th century BC during the reign of Rome's third king Tullus Hostilius. In the 6th century BC Rome's sixth king Servius Tullius warred against Veii (after the expiry of an earlier truce) and the ...
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Veii : The temple of Apollo was built in the late 6th century BC, indicating the spread of Apollo's culture (Aplu) in Etruria. There was a prostyle porch, which is called Tuscan, and a triple cella 18.50 m wide. [132] Falerii Veteres : A temple of Apollo was built probably in the 4th–3rd century BC. Parts of a terracotta capital, and a ...
The Apollo of Veii [2] The Cista Ficoroni; A reconstructed frieze displaying Tydeus eating the brain of his enemy Melanippus; The Tita Vendia vase; The Sarpedon Krater (or, the "Euphronios Krater") - this is now at the Archaeological Museum of Cerveteri, it was at the Villa Giulia from 2008 to 2014; The Centaur of Vulci; Phoenician metal bowls
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The Apollo of Temple, the original name of an indoor arena at Temple University in Philadelphia now known as Liacouras Center Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Temple of Apollo .