Description of the Temple (Reg VII, Ins 9, 2) The temple lies between the Temple of the Lares Publici and the Building of Eumachia on the eastern side of the Forum. The limited space available determined the irregularity of the plan, set at an angle with respect to the axis of the forum. The facade is in brick, parallel to the forum portico, projecting beyond the neighbouring Building of Eumachia. .. .. The raised podium is surrounded on 3 sides by a wall decorated with a pattern of large blind windows framed by pilaster strips and with triangular and curved pediments set over them. The temple stands at the centre of the back wall of the courtyard with a cella in brick with two antae set on a tall podium accessible from the back by two side-stairs. The cella, which still has the base on which the cult statue was set, was originally preceded by a tetrastyle porch. In front of the podium, is a marble altar decorated with reliefs, one of which is the ritual sacrifice of a bull (pictured left and right). .. In the relief the priest, his head covered by his toga, pours a drink. Two lictores, a flute player and two boys bring the sacred instruments, while the bull is led to the altar by the executioner and his assistant. .. The temple had not been completed at the time of the eruption. A door in the back wall gave access to three rooms used by the personnel in charge of the temple and as storerooms.

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