A complex dedicated to the divinities of the medicine. The building had several phases and edifices. From the first phase were identified the remains of a big building, which Southern wing had 2 rooms. To the North continued with a hall with stone and mortar walls.
The building from the first phase was demolished in the II century A.C. and are build four independent edifices from the second phase.

The first edifice is a small temple, Gallic-Roman type, made from a square room. In the center was the cella of the same shape, with the entrance on the Eastern side.
The second edifice was built at South from the first and is a rectangular naos, same as the cella and the cubiculum from the back. In the front of the naos are kept two brick platforms, bases of the columns that bordered the entrance. In the front of the temple is a stone platform on which was the sacrifices altar.
The third edifice, situated South-West from the second, is a rectangular building, with a superficial foundation. At the Eastern side corners are kept two blocks, from grit stone, bases for the entrance. In the front of the entrance was a threshold from grit stone blocks put on the remains of the building from the first phase.
The forth edifice is at 2 m South from the third one, reuses for the Western side a wall from the first phase and is composed from a porch to the East, from which four column platforms were identified and a cella having in the center the base of a square altar made from brick.
From this phase of the building is also a circular well digged West from the first temple.

The second phase seems that ended after a fire from the second half of the II century A.C.
In the third phase of the construction, three buildings (1, 2, 3) is modified and the fourth edifice continues to function in its former shape.
In the temple was a stonecutter work shop of which there is today a stone platform with a round hole in the middle.
There is not excluded that, near the temples, was a hospital, a usual presence near the sanctuaries dedicated to the God of medicine.

Last update: 2008, August 1
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