Victoria Temple (Rome)

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The Temple of Victoria in Rome rose in the immediate vicinity of the Temple of Magna Mater on the Palatine Hill . The financed by fines and 294 BC Chr. During the second consulate of Lucius Postumius Megellus of Victoria temples dedicated to the cult image of the home to Magna Mater to completion of their temple in the year 191 v. The temple of Victoria received a Corinthian external order in late Republican times . In the early Augustan period, before 27 BC. BC, the temple was probably renewed again, for which an inscription fragment from the Palatine speaks, which seems to prove work on the temple initiated by Augustus , but does not mention the honorary name Augustus in the title . This intervention cannot be proven in the archaeological findings. If the aedes Victoriae was of the Corinthian order, it cannot be identified with the Ionic temple on any of the relief panels of the ara Pietatis .

literature

  • Filippo Coarelli : Palatium. Il Palatino dalle origini all'impero. Quasar, Rome 2012, pp. 226-234 and passim
  • Patrizio Pensabene: Area sud-occidentale del Palatino. In: Roma. Archeologia nel centro I . Rom 1985, pp. 179-212, here: pp. 200-201.
  • Patrizio Pensabene: Il tempio della Vittoria sul Palatino. In: Bulletino Archeologico . 11-12, 1991: 11-51 (1994).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Livy 10:33 , 9 and 29, 14, 13; Giuseppe Lugli : Fontes ad topographiam veteris urbis Romae pertinentes . Vol. 8, 1962, pp. 103-104, No. 299-312.
  2. ↑ CIL 6, 31060 : [Imp (erator) C] aes (ar) divi f (ilius) [aedem Vi] ctoria [e refecit] .
  3. ↑ Patrizio Pensabene in: Bulletino Archeologico . Vol. 11-12, 1991 (1994) pp. 15-16.
  4. ^ Paul Rehak: The Ionic temple relief in the Capitoline: the temple of Victory on the Palatine? In: Journal of Roman Archeology . Vol. 3, 1990, p. 172 ff .; Patrizio Pensabene in: Bulletino Archeologico . Vol. 11-12, 1991 (1994) p. 16; Eugenio La Rocca in: Volker M. Strocka (Ed.): The reign of Emperor Claudius (41-54 AD). Break or episode? International interdisciplinary symposium on the occasion of the centenary of the Archaeological Institute of the University of Freiburg i. Br. 16-18. February 1991. Zabern, Mainz 1994, p. 277. 281-282.

Coordinates: 41 ° 53'22 "  N , 12 ° 29'6.4"  E