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Temenos of Athena
Temenos of Athena: sacred precincts of the Greek goddess Athena, from Athena Pronaia at Delphi to Sounion, Old Smyrna, Miletus, and Himera; walled, altar-bearing cult spaces defined by the temenos boundary concept.
Tempelbezirk Pesch
Tempelbezirk Pesch, known locally as the Heidentempel, is a partially reconstructed Gallo-Roman temple complex on the Addig hill in the Eifel, Germany, dedicated to the Matronae Vacallinehae and used from the 1st to 4th century AD.
Tempio della Tosse
The Tempio della Tosse ("Temple of the Cough") is a well-preserved late-antique Roman rotunda in Tivoli, Italy, most likely a villa vestibule built in the 4th century.
Tempio Grande at Vulci
Tempio Grande, the Great Temple of Vulci, a monumental Etruscan temple (podium 24.6 x 36.4 m) in the forum of Vulci, Latium, in use from the late Archaic period to Roman times; excavated by Bartoccini 1956-1959, with a twin temple discovered in 2022.
Temple A
Temple A, Largo di Torre Argentina, Rome: third-century BC Republican temple, probably the Temple of Juturna vowed by Lutatius Catulus after 241 BC, later rebuilt and converted into the church of San Nicola.
Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu
Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu (曲阜孔庙、孔林和孔府), three monument complexes in Shandong, China: a temple founded 478 BC, a 183-hectare cemetery with over 100,000 Kong descendant graves, and the family mansion; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994.
Temple at Santa Maria in Canale
Temple at Santa Maria in Canale: 3rd-2nd century BC Etrusco-Italic podium temple near Amelia, Umbria, on the Via Amerina boundary with Tuder; built into a farmhouse; source of the Umbrian Lamina di Amelia inscription, now in Naples.
Temple B
Temple B, Largo di Torre Argentina, Rome: circular Republican temple of 101 BC, the Aedes Fortuna Huiusce Diei, built by Q. Lutatius Catulus after Vercellae; six Corinthian columns survive.
Temple Bar
Temple Bar is London's only surviving City of London gateway, a 1670–72 Portland stone arch attributed to Christopher Wren, removed in 1878, re-erected at Theobalds Park, and returned to Paternoster Square in 2004.
Temple Bar, Dublin
Temple Bar is Dublin's designated cultural quarter on the south bank of the River Liffey, saved from 1980s bus-station demolition plans by the 1991 renewal act, regenerated with EU funding, and now a major tourist district.
Temple C
Temple C, Largo Argentina, Rome: one of four Republican temples there, perhaps the oldest (late 4th to early 3rd c. BCE), tufa podium, tetrastyle sine postico; conventionally the aedes Feroniae, alternatively Iuturna.
Temple Church
Temple Church (Church of St Mary, Temple), London: 12th-century round church built by the Knights Templar, consecrated 1185, modelled on the Holy Sepulchre; since 1608 the chapel of the Inner and Middle Temple, Grade I listed, damaged in the 1941 Blitz.
Temple complex (Petinesca)
The temple complex of Petinesca is a group of Gallo-Roman sanctuaries on the Jensberg hill near Studen, Switzerland, in use from the 1st to the 4th century AD.
Temple D
Temple D is the conventional label for unnamed ancient temples at several sites: the 5th-century BC Doric temple at Agrigento (Hera Lacinia or Athena), Temple D at Selinus, Ishtar's sanctuary at Ebla, Rome's Largo Argentina Temple D, and Uruk's Temple D.
Temple de Diane
Temple de Diane: Roman building at Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France, first half of the 2nd century AD, classified Monument Historique in 1875, now an archaeological museum; its Diana dedication is debated, with a mausoleum-temple interpretation favored.
Temple de Saint-Gervais
Temple de Saint-Gervais, a Protestant church in Geneva on the right bank of the Rhone, rebuilt 1430-1446 for Bishop François de Metz, converted in 1535, over a 5th-century funerary church crypt and Neolithic occupation from about 4000 BC.
Temple E at Selinus
Temple E at Selinus (Selinunte): a Doric temple on the eastern hill of the Greek colony, dedicated to Hera, built about 460–450 BCE, with six by fifteen columns and famous relief metopes now in Palermo.
Temple East of Lavinium
Temple East of Lavinium: the 5th-century BC Minerva sanctuary on a hill east of Lavinium (Pratica di Mare), Latium, with two votive-deposit phases (late 7th-3rd c. BC), a 2 m Minerva statue, and kourotrophos worship.
Temple F at Selinus
Temple F at Selinus (also Temple S) is a sixth-century BCE Doric temple on the eastern hill of Selinunte, Sicily, 65.7 x 27.4 m with 6 x 14 columns, screen walls, and surviving gigantomachy metopes.
Temple G at Selinus
Temple G at Selinus (Selinunte, Sicily): the largest Doric temple of the Greek colony, begun c. 530 BCE, octastyle, 113 x 54 m, never finished, attributed to Zeus or Apollo, one column standing.
Temple in Block X7
Temple in Block X7, also called the Dolicheneum, is a Roman temple at Dura-Europos, Syria, built by army units around 211 AD and used until 256 AD, with cellae for Jupiter Dolichenus and Turmasgade.
Temple of "Artemis Epikrateia"
Temple of "Artemis Epikrateia": small rural sanctuary of Artemis at Drymonas Archontochoriou, near ancient Alyzeia in Akarnania, Greece; excavated 1993-2000; epithet Epikrateia first attested here; tiles stamped ΑΛΥΖΕΙΩΝ.
Temple of Amenhotep II
Temple of Amenhotep II: name for several 18th Dynasty structures of pharaoh Amenhotep II (c. 1427-1400 BC), chiefly his Temple of Millions of Years at Thebes, plus the Giza Sphinx temple and Karnak edifice and calcite shrine.
Temple of Amphiaraus
Temple of Amphiaraus (Amphiareion, Αμφιάρειο): 4th-century BC Doric temple at the healing and oracular sanctuary of Amphiaraos in Oropos, Greece, with a 110 m incubation stoa, sacred spring, and theater.
Temple of Anu and Adad at Assur
Temple of Anu and Adad at Assur (é-me-lám-an-na): double temple for the sky god Anu and weather god Adad in Assyria's religious capital, founded by Shamshi-Adad I, rebuilt by Tiglath-pileser I, excavated by Walter Andrae.
Temple of Aphaia on Aegina
Temple of Aphaia (Ναός τῆς Ἀφαίας), late Archaic/early Classical Doric temple, 6x12 columns, stylobate 28.8 x 13.8 m, on Aegina island in the Saronic Gulf; sanctuary of the local goddess Aphaia, famous Trojan War pediments now in Munich.
Temple of Aphlad
Temple of Aphlad, sanctuary of the Mesopotamian god Aphlad (Apalados), son of Hadad, god of Anath on the Euphrates, in the southwest corner of Dura-Europos, Syria; built by 54 CE, 38 x 34 m, excavated by Yale in 1931, with the Hadadiabos cult relief.
Temple of Aphrodite Euploia
Temple of Aphrodite Euploia, sanctuaries of Aphrodite as patroness of safe sailing (Greek euploia, "good voyage"), best attested at Cnidos, with Praxiteles' nude cult statue, and at the Piraeus, built by Conon after the battle of Cnide.
Temple of Aphrodite on the Acrocorinth
Temple of Aphrodite on the Acrocorinth (Ακροκόρινθος): principal sanctuary of Aphrodite, patron goddess of Corinth, on the 575 m citadel summit; famed for Strabo's 1,000 hierodoulai, the Armed Aphrodite, 1926 Blegen excavations, and Roman rebuilding.
Temple of Apollo
Temple of Apollo (Sanctuary of Apollo), Pompeii: ancient sanctuary on the Forum's west side, with a mid-6th-century BC temple, Hellenistic podium temple, Augustan expansion, AD 62 rebuilding, and ongoing excavations.