Forum
The second room is dedicated to the Forum of the
Roman city and the materials coming from it, that allowed the rebuilding
of its architecture and its decoration. The central piece of the room
is the maquette of its Flavian phase, made in wood, in the scale 1/500,
by the Bureau d'Arquitecture Antique de Pau, under the direction of
J.C. Golvin, who was the architect associated with the Luso-French
excavations.
The maquette translates in a eloquent way the scaenographia
of Vitruvian model of the sanctuary dedicated to the imperial cult
erectec in the city between 75 and 80 A.D., in commemoration of the
municipal promotion of the town. The building apparatus is restored
starting from some few elements, among which the coffered ceiling
of the temple, the cornice from the portico or what remains of a gargoyle
presenting traces of a deep repair, that must have been extended to
the whole building. The chronology pointed out for the constructions,
is also based on counted elements.
The ornamental apparatus, besides some sculptural epigraphical objects
is represented above all, by a head of Augusto, which is in fact a
of remodelled portrait of Caligula, and an imperial torso, reconstituted
from more than 40 separated fragments that represented likely enough
Claudio, in deified posture.
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