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The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
...at its lower level by a series of rooms with curving walls, probably accommodated the ritual of incubation whereby patients were healed while sleeping within the Sanctuary . To the north is the Roman Temple of Asklepios, the gift of the Roman consul L. Cuspius Pactumeius Rufinus in ad 150 ; it is clearly modelled, though to a smaller scale (diam. 23.5 m), on the Pantheon at Rome (diam. 43.2 m), an interesting example of direct influence of Imperial Roman architectural form on Asia Minor . To the north of this temple, beyond the propylon, is the...
