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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
L. LUSIUS PETELLINUS, DOMUS
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L. LUSIUS PETELLINUS, DOMUS
A lead pipe of the middle or end of the first
century A.D. bearing his name was found on the site of the house of
the Laterani (CIL xv. 7488). It may be conjectured that he became
the owner of the house after the execution of Plautius Lateranus.
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
IUPPITER HELIOPOLITANUS, TEMPLUM
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IUPPITER HELIOPOLITANUS, TEMPLUM
This sanctuary was erected on the
Janiculum, on the site of the LUCUS FURRINAE (q.v.), probably in the
latter half of the first century A.D. Scanty traces of it have been found.
More considerable remains of an edifice erected in 176 A.D. were also
discovered, but only about one quarter of it has been cleared. It consisted, like the first, of an open square temenos, oriented on the points
of the compass, and divided into four equal compartments by two
transverse lines of amphorae; the enclosure wall of the temenos wab also
formed, in part, of rows of amphorae which had, as it appears, some
unknown ritual significance. Two small rooms (one with arrangements
for ritual washing) were also found. Below was a large fishpond.
Interesting objects were found in a boundary ditch, which soon served
as a favissa. The date is given by the inscriptions. Besides the two
cited s.v. LUCUS FURRINAE, there is another altar (of uncertain provenance)
dedicated to Iupp
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
STABULA IIII FACTIONUM
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