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Pompeii, Italy: Forum

Trajan's Forum, Rome, designed by Apollodorus of Damascus, early 2nd century ad; one of the semicircular colonnaded exedrae.

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Roman Forum: Temple of Saturn

Gerasa, Jordan: forum and colonnade

Pompeii, Italy: Forum

Trajan's Forum, Rome, designed by Apollodorus of Damascus, early 2nd century ad; one of the semicircular colonnaded exedrae.

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Trajan's Forum

Apollodorus of Damascus

Greek architect and engineer