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Modern Description: No archaeological remains for the location of Janus Geminus have been found, but numismatic evidence depicts a rectangular building with two arched doors opposite one another, flanked by two columns. The long sides are courses of ashlar blocks with a grating above, surmounted by a decorated frieze of serpentine vines and another with palmettes. The temple is said to have been situated between the Forum Julium and the Forum Romanum, close to where the Argiletum entered the forum. There is no literary evidence that the shrine ever was rebuilt, but it must have been moved to make way for the construction of the Basilica Aemilia in 179 BC and again by Domitian to the Forum Transitorium when he rebuilt the Curia Julia in AD 94. There, possibly remodeled as a quadrifrontal arch, a four-faced statue of Janus replaced the original bifrontal one. (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/imperialfora/nerva/geminus.html)
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Janus_(Roman_Forum)
Wikidata ID: Q352799
Trismegistos Geo: 2058

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