DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1067#0025
No. XL
TEMPLE OF FORTUNE.
Two flights of steps lead up to this Temple, in front of which are
pieces of iron, which appear to be the remains of an iron railing:
very little was found in this Temple except some handsome capitals
and mouldings : the building is very small, but as the ground at the
back of it is not yet cleared away, much of the Temple probably
remains to be uncovered: the Archway close to the Temple cor-
responds with the one leading into the Forum in the following view,
from whence one is led to suppose that it is the commencement of
a main street, leading from the Forum through these two Archways.
The Government are now excavating the ground beyond the further
Arch, in hope of finding one of the principal streets of Pompeii, but
they employ so few men, that their excavations get on but slowly.
TEMPLE OF FORTUNE.
Two flights of steps lead up to this Temple, in front of which are
pieces of iron, which appear to be the remains of an iron railing:
very little was found in this Temple except some handsome capitals
and mouldings : the building is very small, but as the ground at the
back of it is not yet cleared away, much of the Temple probably
remains to be uncovered: the Archway close to the Temple cor-
responds with the one leading into the Forum in the following view,
from whence one is led to suppose that it is the commencement of
a main street, leading from the Forum through these two Archways.
The Government are now excavating the ground beyond the further
Arch, in hope of finding one of the principal streets of Pompeii, but
they employ so few men, that their excavations get on but slowly.