Dioscuri’s Temple

The area of the ancient Cora’s forum is identified in the lower city (Cori valle), at the center of a vast urban sector divided into three terraces, the median, supported by a mighty I manner polygonal wall, is certainly the oldest, dated to the beginning of the 5th century B.C. This large rectangular area had to hold the most important city’s public buildings, then incorporated and partly reused in middle-age and modern masonry. At the southeastern end are still visible the monumental ruins of the Dioscuri’s temple, one of the oldest and most important sanctuaries of the city.

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The studies document at least three building phases from the fifth century B.C. until its monumentalization occurred around 100 B.C. when travertine was used to build the front of the temple (originally six columns on the front) and the tuff for the cult cell, built in uncertain work, with walls covered with a rich plaster imitating marble and a floor covered with black and white mosaic. In the central cell, inside a canopy, were probably hosted the statues of the twins Castor and Pollux in marble of Paros, the rests of which are now inside the Museum of Cori. In front of the temple there is the church of SS. Salvatore, built during the Middle Ages and extensively altered in the next centuries: it holds inside some of the most significant art works made in Cori, such as the circumcision of Jesus, attributed to Giovan Battista da Novara and the frescoes by the Florentine painter Anastasio Fontebuoni.

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To the first forensic terrace, between the IV and III sec. BC, another tarrace was added to an upper level, supported by a III manner polygonal wall, from which comes the porphyry statue of the goddess Minerva, found at the end of the 1500s, that adorns the senatorial palace in Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome, a statue known as “Minerva Capitolina”. On this terrace there must have been an imposing building of worship, smaller than the Temple of the Dioscuri, to which a series of Corinthian-figured capitals, now in the Museum of Cori, must be attributed. During the late Republican period, between the II and I century B. C., an additional terrace was added at the bottom: a large artificial stalls, now called Piazza di Pozzo Dorico, supported by seven rectangular rooms, covered with barrel vaults, of which three used as tanks and the rest likely to be used for the storage, sale or processing raw materials.

Dioscuri’s Temple

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POLIS-È-MIA – codice unico progetto F82JI7000100001 – con D.D. G14038 del 18/10/2017 parte di “Giovani 2017: Aggregazione, prevenzione e supporto”

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