MINERVA CHALCIDICA
a temple mentioned in Reg. (Cur. Reg. IX, om. Not.)
between the Iseum and the Pantheon, and included among the buildings
erected by Domitian (Chron. 146; Hier. a. Abr. 2105). It is also mentioned in Eins. (
Jord. ii. 654) 8. 7 as Minervium; ibi S. Maria, and in the
Mirabilia (22) as iuxta Pantheon templum Minervae Calcidiae. Whether
it was a restoration of the temple built by Pompeius (Plin.
NH vii. 97)
cannot be determined. The church of S. Maria sopra Minerva was
known as S. Maria de Minerva until the fifteenth century: and we need
not suppose that it is built on part of the foundations of this temple.
Some authorities believe that part of the cella itself was still standing
in the early sixteenth century (
BC 1883, 42; LR 463; HJ 573-574).
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(For the history of this church, see Arm. 485-489; HCh 346-347.)