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<p>[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 4625847, member: 80783"]Neat! I always wondered why the coins of the Flavians and Severans seem to show a tetrastyle (showing four columns) and those of Nero a hexastyle (showing six colums) Vesta temple.</p><p>Was the layout of the building changed during antiquity, was there ever more than one such temple, or were the celators just simplifying the view?</p><p>My version has 12 columns (the only possible way to create such a building with equal distances in between the columns in this medium), so it would appear as hexastyle. A temple with 20 columns however should show eight or ten of them in a frontal view which was maybe too much to put on a coin design (especially if there are the Vestals featured also like on your coin).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 4625847, member: 80783"]Neat! I always wondered why the coins of the Flavians and Severans seem to show a tetrastyle (showing four columns) and those of Nero a hexastyle (showing six colums) Vesta temple. Was the layout of the building changed during antiquity, was there ever more than one such temple, or were the celators just simplifying the view? My version has 12 columns (the only possible way to create such a building with equal distances in between the columns in this medium), so it would appear as hexastyle. A temple with 20 columns however should show eight or ten of them in a frontal view which was maybe too much to put on a coin design (especially if there are the Vestals featured also like on your coin).[/QUOTE]
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