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	Roman temple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Temple of Hercules Victor, near the Teatro di Marcello in Rome (a Greek-style Roman temple)
		The most noteworthy temples of Rome were the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, the father of the Roman divinities, and the Pantheon.
		The temple of Isis and Serapis in the Campus Martius, built of Egyptian materials and in the Egyptian style to house the Hellenized cult of the Egyptian deity Isis, is typical of the heterogeneity of later Roman religious monuments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_temple (500 words)

	Temple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites (as in masonry).
		The First Temple was built in the 10th century BCE under King Solomon to replace the Tabernacle and was destroyed by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BCE, marking the beginning of the Babylonian exile.
		It was almost entirely destroyed by Roman troops under Titus in 70 CE during the siege of Jerusalem of the First Jewish-Roman War, leaving only the Western Wall.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Temple (612 words)

	Temples of Mount Moriah
		The Bal Temple in Palmyra, Syria was 40 dunams (17).
		The Temple Mount was 500 cubits by 500 cubits, Mishnah, Kedoshim, Midot 2a
		The Jupiter Temples at Ba'al Bek in Lebanon and Damascus, Syria.
	www.templemount.org /mtmoriah.html (6948 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Temple
		Consequently, according to his theory, the temples were so placed that on the day settled on the calendar as the birthday and feast day of the god the rays of the rising sun fell along the axis of the temple and thus also on his statue.
		The temples of the mysteries were used by the initiated for the celebration of the secret cults, and differed from others, so far as the scanty remains permit a judgment, both in extent and form.
		Although the temple contained several chambers within, yet this fact exercised no actual influence on its external construction, while in the Christian church, either of the Romanesque or of the Gothic style, the interior arrangement is easily recognized from the external construction.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14495a.htm (4054 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: temple @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		TEMPLE [temple] edifice or sometimes merely an enclosed area dedicated to the worship of a deity and the enshrinement of holy objects connected with such worship.
		The temple of Solomon at Jerusalem, the only known monumental structure of the ancient Hebrews, consisted, according to biblical descriptions, of entrance pylons, courts, and a naos, a large rectangular chamber, giving entrance to the holy of holies, which housed the Ark of the Covenant.
		BC), the best-preserved Roman temple, is the common pseudoperipteral type, with engaged columns or pilasters attached to its walls.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1E1:temple (888 words)

	Egypt Temples
		It was the mortuary temple and the cult of the dead king that funded the entire pyramid complex of the early kings, for example.
		Between the outer temple and the inner section there was usually a transverse corridor, and in the center of the long, west wall a doorway lead to the inner sanctuary of which the front section consists of a chapel with five niches for statues.
		Aghurmi Temple and the Oracle of Amun - Siwa
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/temples.htm (1980 words)

	Roman Temples
		Unlike ordinary Roman women, Vestal Virgins were manumitted to the god and possessed the right to control their own financial affairs and property.
		Soon after the completion of the temple its plan was completely changed by walling up the traditional front and back doors and opening a doorway on the east wall of the cella.
		This doorway, though not in the center of the temple, lay on the axis of the Propylea.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~rauhn/roman_temples.htm (398 words)

	Roman temple of Aquae Sulis and the Abbey of Bath, England.
		Roman temple of Aquae Sulis and the Abbey of Bath, England.
		Soon after the arrival of the Romans in England in 43 AD, the Celtic shrine was taken over and the goddess Sulis was identified with the Roman goddess Minerva as a healing deity.
		Following the departure of the Roman legions from Britain early in the fifth century AD, the city and its splendid temples and baths swiftly fell into decline.
	www.sacredsites.com /europe/england/bath.html (744 words)

	The Real Site of Herod's Temple in Jerusalem
		He completely destroyed all vestiges of the Temple and adjoining structures, and it is reported that he built a Roman temple of Jupiter on the site, with an equestrian statue of his in front.
		Borrowing from the design of the Baalbek temple in Syria, Sagiv proposed that the Jupiter Temple was where the Al Aqsa mosque is now, and a hexagonal structure was at the northern end, exactly at the spot of the Dome now.
		Eyewitnesses such as Josephus have stated that the Temple could not be seen from the north because it was obstructed by the Fort to the north which was at a higher elevation.
	www.biblediscoveries.com /templesite.html (3251 words)

	The Roman Era Temple at Shenhur in Middle Egypt
		The temple built by Amenhotep III was dedicated principally to the Nuibian form of the God Horus, and later, apparently during the time of Ramesses II, to Amun.
		The temple that was actually built on the orders of Ramesses II, sometime between his 35th and 50th year as king, was dedicated to Amun-Re and Re-Horakhty.
		The part of the temple that was built in stone and hewn from the cliff is similar to the temple at Garf Hussein, and corresponds to the typical tripartite cult temple, with a court, a hypostyle hall and sanctuary.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/shenhur.htm (697 words)

	The Official Roman Baths Museum Web Site in the City of Bath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		From the roman britain, bath pump room earliest Roman use of Bath's natural hot the roman baths and pump room, city of bath waters to the fashionable 18th century elegance of venue hire bath, sacred spring uk the Georgian Pump Room.
		The very roman baths museum, world heritage city powerful central image of the Gorgon’s head glowered the roman baths and pump room, city of bath down from a height of 15 metres venue hire bath, sacred spring uk on all who approached the temple.
		Above all this, in the the roman baths and pump room, city of bath apex of the pediment, is a star.
	www.romanbaths.co.uk (646 words)

	Jerusalem: In Depth : History : The Roman Occupation \| Frommers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Herod’s great temple complex, initially opposed by many Jews who felt it was too Roman in its grandeur, became a symbol of Jewish national and religious aspirations and a constant flash point in Jewish opposition to Roman rule.
		As never before, the temple became a center for Jewish pilgrimage from Judea, the Galilee, Babylonia, Persia, and all parts of the Roman Empire; more than 100,000 pilgrims could be accommodated in Jerusalem during the great festivals of Passover and Sukkot.
		The Jewish rebellion against Roman rule in A.D. 66 drove the Roman occupiers from Jerusalem, and brought the Roman armies of Titus and Vespasian to reconquer Jerusalem.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/jerusalem/0088032911.html (893 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Heritage \| Both pagan and Christian
		Elegantly carved capitals in the Temple of Khnum at Esna; The new Monastery of the Martyrs at Esna is a large and elegant construction in neo-Coptic style; One of the rock-hewn sanctuaries in the oldest church in the monastery
		The Egyptian artists who adorned the Temple of Khnum undoubtedly required a certain measure of hypocrisy, or cynicism, to eulogise a Roman emperor who lived on the other side of the sea in the guise of a Pharaoh.
		The temple is no longer included in the standard Nile cruise because of its inconvenient location in the centre of a heavily-populated town, and it is seldom visited by tourists because of the inconvenience of having to travel in convoy.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/712/hr1.htm (1595 words)

	Roman Temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The temple of Shenhur lays isolated on the edge of the village, in an area of approximately 1.3 ha which belongs to the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation.
		To the east of the temple lays a railway which was used to transport sugar cane, but which is now no longer in use.
		This part of the temple is best preserved due to an ironic twist of fate: it was erected using a very hard, low quality local limestone, containing many fossilised shells, while the later additions to the temple were constructed with a homogenous white, high quality limestone.
	millennium.arts.kuleuven.ac.be /shenhur/roman_temple.htm (690 words)

	The "Roman Temple" System [Interesting]
		The "Roman Temple," system developed by the Israeli defense establishment, is comprised of multiple camera and viewing positions located in populated regions.
		The "Roman Temple" system will expedite the response time of rescue teams, and will reduce the time in which citizens outside of the area of impact have to remain in protective spaces, sealed rooms, or shelters.
		The "Roman Temple" system operates in conjunction with the "Status of the Homefront" system, which comprehensively manages events, via the integration of national information, including the status of roads, buildings, and emergency services.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/876191/posts (482 words)

	Amazon.com: The Architecture of Roman Temples : The Republic to the Middle Empire: Books: John W. Stamper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This book examines the development of Roman temple architecture from its earliest history in the sixth century BC to the reigns of Hadrian and the Antonines in the second century AD.
		John Stamper analyzes the temples' formal qualities, the public spaces in which they were located and, most importantly, the authority of precedent in their designs.
		Temple architecture in early Rome from the sixth to the fifth centuries B.C. was dominated by a combination of Etruscan and Latin influences.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/052181068X?v=glance (627 words)

	Forum Romanum, Rome (Photo Archive) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Roman Forum (Forum Romanum) was the political and economical centre of Rome during the Republic.
		Also from this period are the Temple of Saturn, the Temple of Castor and Pollux and the Temple of Concord.
		A few buildings were converted into churches, including the Curia, the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina and the Temple of Divus Romulus; the rest was left to shepherds and their animals, to the extent that the popular name of the area became Campo Vaccino, the cattle field.
	sights.seindal.dk /sight/4_Forum_Romanum.html (2200 words)

	Roman Archaeology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The construction of the Roman Limes was quite possibly influenced by the concept of the Great Wall in China, though the two great buildings of the world are far away from each other, said archaeologists and historians.
		The Roman Limes are Europe's largest archaeological monument, consisting of sections of the border line of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent in the 2nd century AD.
		The adjacent Roman house is a careful reconstruction of a Roman dwelling and workshop showing life as it would have been 2,000 years ago.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~mharrsch/romanarch.html (11967 words)

	Second Temple Times
		When the prophecy of Isaiah was given the First Temple, that of Solomon, was still standing, the city of Jerusalem had not been destroyed and would not be for at least another hundred years, and the people were not in exile.
		In his arrogance he entered the temple and carried off the golden altar, the lamp-stand with all its equipment, the table for the Bread of the Presence, the sacred cups and bowls, the golden censers, the curtain and the crowns.
		Herod's temple, the temple of Jesus' day, was a huge and magnificent structure, a wonder of the ancient world.
	www.templemount.org /secondtmp.html (8569 words)

	The Roman Temple Mold
		I sanded all of the blocks for the temple in about 15 minutes using this method.
		The first three rows of blocks are made from the Roman Temple mold.
		The chariot base is one of the bases from the Roman Arch.
	www.hirstarts.com /temple/temple.html (1980 words)

	Department of Greek, Hebrew and Roman Classics
		The study of Greek and Roman Classics gives students a rigorous education in the nature of language, in the skills of close reading and textual analysis, and in historical reasoning.
		If you are interested in mythology, in ancient history, in where the major institutions of Western culture began and why some disappeared for a long time, then you are interested in Classics.
		Temple Classics offers a major in Classics, and minors in Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
	www.temple.edu /classics (452 words)

	Pantheon - Rome, Italy - Great Buildings Online
		It was built as a Roman temple and later consecrated as a Catholic Church.
		Its monumental porch originally faced a rectangular colonnaded temple courtyard and now enfronts the smaller Piazza della Rotonda.
		They support an entablature facing the square, which bears the famous inscription in Latin, attributing the construction to Agrippa, although the extant temple was rebuilt later by Hadrian.
	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Pantheon.html (551 words)

	British Archaeology, no 44, May 1999: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The temple has a `classic double-square plan', and is an unusual find on a villa estate, according to Mr Keevill.
		In an unprecedented discovery, a pillow of carefully-arranged leaves was found under the woman's head, and a piece of matted gold thread survives as a probable remnant of her clothing.
		Pottery from the fort, dated to the Antonine period by Manchester University's Roman Gask Project, led by David Woolliscroft, has shown that the Roman occupation of Scotland north of the Antonine Wall in the 2nd century was more widespread than had previously been believed.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba44/ba44news.html (1477 words)

	Films Media Group - Baalbek: Roman Temple Complex
		On the plains of Beqaa, on the site of the Phoenician city of Baalbek, stands what is arguably the worldâ€™s most impressive testament to Imperial Roman architecture: the gigantic temple complex dedicated to Jupiter, Venus, and Bacchus.
		To travel the Mediterranean is to sail into a past that scattered Roman temples in Lebanon, Greek theaters in Jordan, and Phoenician houses in Tunisia.
		Thriving in the shadows of the Roman and Parthian Empires, the polyglot oasis town of Palmyra, "the Venice of the Sands," grew rich on the caravan trade between northern Syria and Babylonia.
	www.films.com /id/6048/Baalbek_Roman_Temple_Complex.htm (378 words)

	GLOSSARY FOR ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cella — that part of a temple where the statues of deities are housed.
		Podium — raised platform structure upon which a Roman temple rested.
		Tufa — volcanic rock used by the early Romans as a building stone.
	www.latech.edu /tech/liberal-arts/history/meade/wmrarcgl.html (489 words)

	Roman Architecture & Engineering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Republican temple, Largo Argentina, Rome/ and travertine capital-split slide
		Remains of the Temple of Mars Ultor, Rome
		Entablature of round temple, at Tivoli/Plan of a round temple (Vesta)
	classics.furman.edu /~rprior/courses/RA/RAU59.html (430 words)

	Lesson Plan: Greek and Roman Temple Frame
		Must design so opening can be cut 6" x 9".
		Build entablature across temple --add columns on either side--construct Ionic, Doric, Corinthian columns---or design capital of you own
		Note: when we made these - we used them to frame 9"x12" paper mosaics.
	www.princetonol.com /groups/iad/lessons/middle/Lessons/6frame.htm (686 words)

	[TMP] 28mm Roman Temple & Arch Kits at Castle Kits
		Hirst Arts' Roman Temple and Arch are now available as complete kits from Castle Kits.
		Roman Arch with Clay Roof Tiles (not shown)..
		Kits include all the pieces required for the project, step-by-step insturctions and tip sheet, cast in white Hydrostone.
	theminiaturespage.com /news/365587 (108 words)

	rp-ml-2000: Roman Temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Last year my daughter asked for some help on a Latin project.
		doing the cardboard thing, we reverse engineered a roman temple from a
		Does anyone have a file for an ancient Roman styled
	rapid.lpt.fi /archives/rp-ml-2000/3848.html (218 words)

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