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HERCULES OLIVARIUS

a monument of Hercules in Region XI (Not.), which may have been either a shrine or a statue ¹(cf. HERCULES CUBANS). Some evidence for the latter view is a marble base found near the round temple in the forum Boarium, with an inscription (CIL vi. 33936: [Hercules invictus ..... ]o Olivarius opus Scopae minoris; NS 1895, 459; Mitt. 1896, 99-102; 1897, 56-70: BC 1897, 55; 1917, 184). The epithet olivarius may well indicate the presence in that district of dealers in oil who regarded Hercules as their tutelary deity (HJ 145-146; DAP 2. vi. 261; RE viii. 580; Rosch. i.2960, for literature and other explanations).

1 ' The type is represented on a larger scale by the recumbent Hercules in the Museo Chiaramonti in the Vatican (No. 733; v. Amelung. Sculpt. Vat. i. p. 812).

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

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