Walls with large square spaces, where the yellow of the base contrasted with the intense red and black of the central band, the colours interspersed with delicate decorations of flowers and candelabra, niches for statues and even perhaps the very high ceiling illuminated by a deep blue like an August sky.

Built at the dawn of the first century AD when Augustus reigned over Rome, the great Roman temple of Cupra near Ascoli Piceno was in the first phase of its life filled with colours and images in the third Pompeian style, with the same hues and the same decoration that at the time were shown off to their best effect in the richest homes of Rome and Pompeii.