Historical landmark
Jupiter's Temple
Roman temple to Jupiter with a coffered barrel vault, guarded by a headless three-thousand-year-old Egyptian sphinx.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Jupiter's Temple in Split opens with the masons carving its coffered ceiling the moment word reached them that Emperor Diocletian was abdicating in the year three hundred five, work you can still see left unfinished overhead. You'll hear about the headless Egyptian sphinx guarding the doorway, carved some three thousand five hundred years ago under Thutmose the Third, older than Rome itself by a thousand years. Look up at the vault where the carving simply stops mid-coffer.
This audio guide was created using AI.