Statuary
Coin with an Image of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, 141 A.D.
Digital Reconstruction of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, 141 A.D.
Roman coins depicting the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina indicate that there may have been a statue of a divine woman riding a chariot drawn by four horses at the apex of the pediment. At the corners of the pediment, there would have been sculptures of female figures, likely representing the personification of Victory, who raised either large shields or wreaths. [1] In 1885, the lower half of a seated female statue was discovered on the marble pavement just east of the temple. This sculpture likely belonged to a group of statues that encircled the temple in antiquity. Finally, on either side of the stairs, two pedestals with a heroic male statue on the left, and a draped female figure on the right, were also present during the early life of the temple.
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1. Gilbert J. Gorski and James E. Packer, The Roman Forum: A Reconstruction and Architectural Guide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015): 77.
2. Gorski and Packer, The Roman Forum, 79.