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✧ Maison carrée ✧

The Maison carrée (French for 'square house') is an ancient Roman temple in Nîmes, southern France. It is a mid-sized Augustan provincial temple of the imperial cult, and one of the best-preserved Roman temples to survive in the territory of the former Roman Empire. Built in the early 1st century AD, it was dedicated or red...

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Maison carrée - Wikipedia

#Spinario, or "Boy With Thorn"; a Greco-Roman statue that shows a boy plucking a thorn from his foot. Recent scholarship suggests it was made during the early #Augustan period. In the #Capitoline Museum in #Rome. #PhotoMonday