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	Ostia: Temple of Hercules (I 15, 5)  Ostia: Temple of Hercules (photo: Athena Review 2001)
	This late 2nd century BC temple (31 x 16 m) is the largest in the Republican sacred area of Ostia. The temple, with a podium of tufa blocks, had a facade with six columns and cella or shrine with small brick columns and a black and white mosaic floor. The marble statue is of C. Cartilius Poplicola, a three-time Duumvir or administrator of Ostia in the 1st centuru BC. His father may have built the temple; Poplicola is a by-name meaning Friend of the People. .
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