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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]
A temple of Janus is said to have been consecrated by the consul Gaius Duilius in 260 BC after the Battle of Mylae in the Forum Holitorium. It contained a statue of the god with the right hand showing the number 300 and the left the number 65—i.e., the length in days of the solar year, and twelve altars, one for each month. [59]
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 .
After the kalamkaval and aniyara kettal (dressing up), the ritual drama is staged. Bhadrakalithottam, the ritual song of Kaliyoottu is to be sung in 48 days, but it fluctuates depending on the festival days. [2] Inside the temple, the song is sung sitting on the pandal placed opposite the main deity. Kuzhithalam also known as Chinki is the main ...
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.
Fontus was the son of Juturna and Janus. [2] Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome, was supposed to have been buried near the altar of Fontus (ara Fontis) on the Janiculum. [3] William Warde Fowler observed that between 259 and 241 BC, cults were founded for Juturna, Fons, and the Tempestates, all having to do with sources of water. [4]