Cigarette Card

Wills’s Cigarettes “Wonders of the Past” Cigarette Card #46 “Temple of Poseidon at Pæstum”

Produced in 1926 by W. D. & H. O. Wills.

Issued by The Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain & Ireland) Ltd.

Text on reverse of card reads:

“Three lonely temples near the sea south of Salerno in Italy are all that mark the site of the once great Greek city of Poseidonia, called by the Romans Paestum, founded as a colony of Sybaris about 600 B.C. Of these the largest was probably dedicated to the city’s patron god, Poseidon. Lord of the Sea. Of the Doric order it is 200 feet long, and the exterior colonnade, consisting of thirty-six columns, six at each end, is still standing. The columns are 28 feet high. The temple was probably built about the middle of the fifth century B.C.”