HERCULES CUBANS
a monument on the right bank of the Tiber, mentioned
only in the Regionary Catalogue (Not.
Reg. XIV), which may have been
either a statue or a shrine of some kind. In 1889, within the limits of the
HORTI CAESARIS (q.v.), just south of the Trastevere station, a shrine was
discovered cut in the tufa rock and dedicated to Hercules, who is represented as reclining at table; together with seven heads of charioteers,
and with two inscriptions recording a dedication by L. Domitius Permissus
(
CIL vi. 30891, 30892). To this another inscription (vi. 332) may perhaps
belong, and the shrine is now generally identified with the Hercules
Cubans (HJ 644;
NS 1889, 243-247;
BC 1890, 9;
Mitt. 1891, 149;
1892, 331;
1897, 67-70;
RE viii. 588-589;
Rosch. i. 2962; PT 234).
