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Only three surviving columns of a great temple are visible. But what is it? There are two major suggestions, neither of which have been proven without a doubt.
One is that it was a Capitolium Temple.
The other is that it was the Temple of Octavia, in honor of the sister of Augustus Caesar. There may be a little nudge toward the latter because of a description by Pausanias, a Greek traveler and geographer, who wrote descriptions of ancient Greece.
If it was a Temple to Octavia, then it is a good representation of the imperial cult of Rome, which was wide-spread in the empire.
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