Description of the Forum (Reg VIII, Ins 7, 30) The Triangular Forum takes its name from the unusual shape of the site. It was probably laid out during the Samnite period in the second century B.C. .. It was entered by way of an elegant monumental portico of tufa Ionic columns on its shortest side (pictured below). .. .. The southern part of the forum contained a Doric Temple built in the 6th century BC. Further on are the remains of a sacred well covered by a small, circular temple with eight doric columns (pictured right) sponsored by N. Trebius. .. It had a portico with ninety-five Doric columns around three sides leaving only the south-west side open to allow views of the coast. Inside the entrance was a fountain and a statue to M. Claudius Marcellus, nephew of Emperor Augustus. ..

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