{"id":6593,"date":"2026-01-12T16:56:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-central-area-and-the-official-complexes\/tempio-di-roma-e-augusto\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:16:48","slug":"tempio-di-roma-e-augusto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-central-area-and-the-official-complexes\/tempio-di-roma-e-augusto\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempio di Roma e Augusto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps built while Augustus was still alive (in the early 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century AD), this imposing temple was erected in the south part of the Forum square, aligned with the older\u00a0Capitolium<\/em>; the association between the cult of the emperor and the city\u2019s traditional cults held an obvious symbolic and ideological meaning.<\/p>\n

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Reconstruction of the north and west fa\u00e7ades of the temple
(R. Geremia, M.A. Ricciardi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The building\u2019s foundations and part of the original architectural decoration in marble survive, including the rear pediment and the statue of flying Victory, which must have stood at the top of the roof: these marbles have now been mounted on a modern wall in the vicinity of the building. The temple fa\u00e7ade probably hosted a platform from which orators addressed the people.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tStatue of winged Victory originally placed at the top of the temple pediment\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tModern wall with reconstruction of one of the pediments of the temple\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tCult statue of the goddess Roma\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps built while Augustus was still alive (in the early 1st\u00a0century AD), this imposing temple was erected in the south part of the Forum square, aligned with the older\u00a0Capitolium; the association between the cult of the emperor and the city\u2019s traditional cults held an obvious symbolic and ideological meaning.     The building\u2019s foundations and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6512,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6593","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6594,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6593\/revisions\/6594"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}