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The Cult Statues of the Pantheon

“…148 Yet the most plausible recent reconstructions of the space imagine a domical wooden roof with wooden coffers comparable to the exedras of the Forum Augustum which have identical radial dimensions. 149 There is some pictorial evidence for how this might have looked. A round structure painted in the early imperial period on the upper part of both the north and south walls of the 'Tablinum' in the House of Caecilius Jucundus at Pompeii consists of a row of Ionic columns supporting a coffered dome (Fig.…”