Medal - Valley of Temples, Agrigento

Reverse

Ruined columns

Script: Latin

Lettering:
TEMPIO DI ERCOLE
Forderte Sanet Love

VI sec. a.C.

Valle Dei Templi - Agrigento

Edge

Reeded

Comment

Obverse: The "Temple of the Dioscuri," the northwest corner of which is a misleading modern reconstruction from the early 19th century. The structure was created using pieces from various other temples. It includes four columns and an entablature. The temple itself measures 31 m × 13.39 m, and would likely have been a Doric peripteral with 6 x 13 columns, dating to about the mid-5th c. BC.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_dei_Templi

Reverse: The columns, made in the archaic Doric style, are found on the hill of the temples, on a rocky spur near the Villa Aurea. The name 'Temple of Heracles' is an attribution of modern scholarship, based on Cicero's mention of a temple dedicated to the hero non longe a foro "not far from the agora" (Verrine II 4.94), containing a famous statue of Heracles. That the agora of Akragas was in this area has not yet been demonstrated, but the identification is generally accepted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Heracles,_Agrigento