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Hadrian's Rome

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This is an oblique aerial photograph of a built-up area shown in colour. The focus is a large circular building with a domed roof. The lower half of the roof is stepped and there is a circular opening at the top in the centre.

Attached to the front of the building is a porch. Eight Corinthian columns support a plain pediment and the edges of four further columns are visible beyond them.

The dentils at the sides of the pediment can just be seen. Below them on the architrave is a Latin inscription.

Buildings surround the wedge of land where the circular building stands. A street runs either side of the building. An obelisk capped with a cross decorates a fountain standing on a low stepped base in the centre of an open pedestrianised space in front of the porch.

 2.1 Introducing the Pantheon