Temple of Minerva Chalcidica

The Temple of Minerva Chalcidica was the Minerva consecrated small circular temple in Rome .

The temple was built by Domitian and was located at the entrance of the Porticus Divorum, which he also built . The temple owes its nickname Chalcidica to this entrance situation. The temple may have had a previous building that was destroyed in a fire in 80 AD. The temple is marked on a piece of the Forma Urbis Romae that is now lost . After that it was roughly at the site of today's Santa Marta Church . Nevertheless, he gave the church Santa Maria sopra Minerva , a little further to the west, the nickname. No archaeological remains of the temple have yet been found.

literature

Filippo Coarelli : Rome - An Archaeological Guide . Revised by Ada Gabucci. Zabern, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-8053-2685-8 .

Individual evidence

^ Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project
^ Coarelli, Rome - An Archaeological Guide , p. 287.

41.8975 12.48Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 51 ″ N , 12 ° 28 ′ 48 ″ E

[1] Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project

[2] Coarelli, Rome - An Archaeological Guide , p. 287.