BASILICA MARCIANAE
BASILICA MATIDIAE
mentioned in Reg. as in
Region
IX and in Pol. Silv. (545). These halls were
undoubtedly near
the
TEMPLUM MATIDIAE (q.v.), and from the
evidence of a medallion
of Hadrian (Eckhel vi. p. 472; Gnecchi ii. p. 5, No. 25, pl.
39, No. 5)
they seem to have stood on each side of the area in front
(north) of this
temple, a little back from the east and west sides of the
present Piazza
Capranica; while the domed building known as the
Tempio di Siepe
in the seventeenth century may have had a corresponding
building
opposite to it, each standing at the north end of one of
these two
basilicas, as Hulsen supposes. It cannot have given its
name to the
church of S. Stefano de Trullo, which was near the
Hadrianeum
(
LS i. 132; HCh 485;
BC 1883, 5-16;
Mitt. 1899, 141-153;
HJ 575;
Hulsen in
OJ 1912, 136-142; RA 134).
