Colonnes de Riez

The Roman Temple in Riez, a French commune in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, was built in the 1st century. The temple has been a protected monument, a Monument historique, since 1840.

The Roman temple, which is now located on the western outskirts of Riez, once stood in the center of the Roman city of Colonia Julia Augusta Apollinarium Reiorum.

The remains of the former podium temple consist of four individual foundations supporting large columns. Their monolithic granite column shafts rest on Attic bases and are crowned by Corinthian capitals. The bases and capitals are made of white marble. An architrave divided into three fasciae, each band of which is topped by a bead-and-reel molding, spans the four columns. The undersides of the architrave are decorated with soffits, whose pictorial fields are framed by a Lesbian cyma. Two calyxes of leaves joined at the base occupy the pictorial field itself. A Lesbian cyma also mediates the transition to the lost frieze of the entablature. The corners of the architrave are mitered to ensure the connection of the lateral architrave sections. The temple was consequently a four-column prostyle.