TEMPLE BASILICA

At the end of the 2nd century the building was rebuilt with major modifications in its planimetry.

The edifice is situated North from the Aesculapius and Hygia temple, to the east of the Liber Pater temple. For this building, which is undoubtedly a cult edifice, there is no epigraphical, iconographical or archaeological indication, regarding the divinity or the divinities to whom it was dedicated.

The temple was built on a field occupied by two groups of wooden buildings which were destroyed by a big fire. The wooden buildings were from the beginning of the II century a.D. and have had a very short existence. The Northern side was the wall of the sacred hall. On the South was a corridor, 3 m large, on the whole length of the building. North from the corridor was found a wall, 0.2m wide, built from bricks and tiles fragments in mortar and plaster. The area surrounded by the wall was paved. This phase of the building end after a fire caused, probably, the marcomanic attack.

The Southern wall of the corridor is demolished on a 5.6 m length and at its ends two room are formed with an interior of 3.5m x 3.6 m. The space between the room is paved with small broken stones. On the way to the South wall is built a threshold from tiles and bricks. Both the rooms and the space between them were covered. Another fire destroyed the roof. The edifice walls are rebuilt with river stones and mortar in opus incertum technique. The temple had functioned till the abandonment of Dacia.

As architectonic the building is a variant of the Roman temple with close analogies in Britannia.