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TEMPLE OF JUPITER SERAPIS. 



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marble 

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displayed the like munificence between the years 222 and 



From that era there is an entire dearth of historical 



than twelve centuries, 



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information for a period 



except the significant fact that Alaric and his Goths sacked 



Puzzuoli in 410, and that Genseric did the like in 445, a.d. 



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occurred in and about the temple are revealed to us. These 

 natural records consist partly of deposits, which envelop the 

 pillars below the zone of lithodomous perforations, and 

 partly of those which surround the outer walls of the temple. 



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(see p. 164, note) that incrustations on the walls of the 



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Fill. 126. 



Temple of Serapis at its period of greatest depression. 



a h. Ancient mosaic pavement. 

 c c. Dark marine incrustation. 

 d d. First filling np, shower of ashes 



€ e, Freshwater calcareous deposit. 

 //. Second filling up. 

 A. Stadium. 



exterior cliambers and on tlie floor of tlie buildino- demon-, 

 strate that the pavement did not sink down suddenly, but 

 was depressed hj a gradual movement. The sea first entered 

 the court or atrium, and mingled its waters partially with 

 those of the hot spring. From this brackish medium a dark 

 calcareous precipitate (c c, fig. 120) was thrown down, which 

 became, in the course of time, more than two feet thick, 

 including some serpulcc in it. The presence of these annelids 

 teaches us that the water was salt or brackish. After this 

 period the temple was filled up with an irregular mass of 

 volcanic tuff {d d^ fig. 126), probably derived from an erup- 

 tion of the neighbouring crater of the Solfatara, to the 



/ Brieslak, Voy. dans la Campanie, torn. ii. p. 167. 





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