The Temple of Saturn By Jacques Fehr
The Temple of Saturn -3rd oldest sacred place in Rome -Rebuilt three times (42 BC and and 4th century AD) -The temple was dedicated to the god Saturn -Dedicated around 497 BC
The Temple of Saturn again -All that remains are eight columns with a pediment on top -The remains are from the third temple, which was created because the second was destroyed by fire -The third temple was built by the people and senate of Rome
The Temple of Saturn a third time -Located in the western area of the Roman Forum -Sits at the foot of Capitoline hill -The statue inside the temple was wooden and veiled, and also held a scythe
Still the Temple of Saturn -Inside the temple was the treasury -Saturn was associated with wealth -It stored the Republics gold and silver, and the official scale for measuring metals
Bibliography Websites: m/saturn.html Pictures - e/italy/rome/rome/rome_006p.jpg - images.net/Images/Rome/Roman_Forum/Temple_ofSaturn_3783.jpg - Giovanni/Vedute Temple of Saturn and the triumphal arch of Septimius Severus in the Roman?Width= purchase.gif - r852aba93e9f34d c9af_f0czt_400.jpg