LYAEUS
LIBER, BACCHUS, TECTA
a shrine of Bacchus which, together
with one of Cybele (see
MAGNA MATER, THOLUS), stood '
in summa Sacra
via,' where the clivus Palatinus branched off to ascend the Palatine (
Mart.
i. 70. 9-10:
Flecte vias hac qua madidi sunt tecta Lyaei / Et Cybeles
picto stat Corybante tholus,). In 1899 part of a marble epistyle, belonging
to a circular structure about 3.9 metres in diameter, was found in front
of the basilica of Constantine. On this is a fragmentary inscription
recording a restoration by Antoninus Pius. A coin of that emperor
(Cohen ii. No. 1187) represents a circular shrine with a statue of Bacchus
within its colonnade, which probably records the same restoration
(
NS 1899, 223, 266;
BC 1899, 147;
1903, 27-29;
Mitt. 1902, 98-99;
Klio 1902, 241; HJ 104; Hiilsen, Satura Pompeiana Romana 7-8,
in
Symbolae litterariae in honorem Iulii de Petra, Florence, 1911; HC
238, 239; Altm. 72; Thed. 341).