BONA DEA
a shrine of Bona Dea, which stood a little north
of the present
church of S. Cecilia in Trastevere, known only from
certain inscriptions
found in the neighbourhood. One (
CIL vi. 65) records the
restoration of
a sacrum Bonae Deae by M. Vettius Bolanus. consul c.
69 A.D. (cf.
BALINEUM BOLANI); another (67) the erection of a
simulacrum in
tutelam insulae Bolani, and the gift of an aedes to Bona
Dea restituta
or restitutrix, by a certain Cladus who also made another
present of
some kind to the goddess (
CIL vi. 66). Nothing further is
known of
this shrine (cf.
CIL vi. 75;
BC 1905, 349;
NS 1905, 270;
HJ
639-640;
RE iii. 690;
Gilb. ii. 177;
iii. 445).
