Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, MAGNA MATER (IN VATICANO)

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MAGNA MATER (IN VATICANO)

a shrine on the right bank of the Tiber, near the racecourse of Caligula (Gaianum), known from several inscriptions (CIL vi. 497-504) on fragmentary marble altars, dating from 305 to 390 A.D., all but one of which were found under the favade of S. Peter's in 1609 (Severano, Sette Chiese, 95; cf. also NS 1922, 81; DAP 2. xv. 271-278; JHS 1923, 194).¹ This shrine is probably the Frigianum (Phrygianum) of the Not. (Reg. XIV). If an inscription on an altar at Lyon of the time of Hadrian (CIL xiii. 1751: L. Aemilius Carpus iiiiiiivir Aug. item dendrophorus vires excepit et a Vaticano transtulit) refers to this shrine, it would indicate that this was an important cult centre (RhM 1891, 132; HJ 659; Rosch. ii. 2917).

1 See also CIL vi. 30779; M61. 1923, 3; RL 1925, 3-9; 858-865. For another altar, with similar reliefs, but without inscription, which until recently stood in the church of SS. Michele e Magno, and five pilasters, with fine decorations in relief, which may also belong to it, see Cascioli, Guida al nuovo museo di San Pietro, 5, 39; and, for the pilasters, SScR 305, figs. 183, 184.

A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Samuel Ball Platner. Thomas Ashby. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 1929.

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