The thesis examines Romano-Celtic temples as an architectural and religious phenomenon emerging from the intersection of Roman and Celtic cultural and devotional spheres. It represents a systematic attempt to geolocate all known temples of this type west of the Rhine, and to classify them within an atlas and a digital inventory database, which then served as the basis for a series of statistical analyses. A total of 880 unique temples comprising 947 construction phases were recorded, spanning the territory of Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and north-western Italy. The aim of the subsequent correlation analyses was to identify potential cultural and architectural patterns related to temple orientation, typology, ritual form, and geographic context. The results revealed several statistically significant associations, contributing to a deeper understanding of regional specificities and preferences connected to Romano-Celtic temples. The work lays the foundation for the integration of the database with temples from eastern regions of the Roman state and for the transfer of the employed systematization and analysis methods within other archaeological and architectural phenomena of wider geographical scope.
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