Severan Forum. Portico arcade. Detail: Medusa head.

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SEVERAN Anonymous (193-235): Around the inside of the forum the portico was of a continuous arcade supported on columns with Pergamon-style (lotus-and-acanthus) capitals, and alternating Nereid and Medusa heads in the spandrels.

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