SILVANUS, SACELLA
shrines of the essentially rustic deity Silvanus (WR
2. 13), erected by private individuals or collegia in Rome during the empire,
several of which have been located by the discovery of inscriptions
(
Rosch. iv. 854-857). These are:
(I) in
Region III (probably), in the via Merulana, near the so-called
Auditorium Maecenatis (
CIL vi. 30930).
(2) in
Region V, near the Lateran (vi. 580).
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(3) in
Region V, near the present railway station and that part of
the Servian agger which was called monte della Giustizia before its
removal (vi. 3716=31013, 3697=30940;
BC 1873, 89).
(4) in
Region VI, near the south-east corner of the thermae Constantinianae, on the site of the present Banca d'Italia (vi. 31020-31022;
NS 1887, 108-109;
BC 1887, 162; HJ 420).
(5) in
Region VI, near the hemicycle on the south-west side of the
thermae Diocletiani (vi. 3714=31007).
(6) in
Region VI in the horti Sallustiani, near the porta Pinciana, in
the via Ludovisi (vi. 310
2, 583, 640,
3 30985, 31025;
BC 1887, 223-224;
1888, 402;
NS 1887, 275. To this shrine may refer Hist. Aug. Tac. 17. I:
in templo Silvani), probably under the title Silvanus custos.
(7) in
Region IX, on the site of the present church of S. Marco (vi.
626).
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(8) in
region XII, near the north-west side of the thermae Antoninianae,
on the slope below S. Balbina (vi. 543, 659; HJ 189; Merlin 324).
(9) in
Region XIV, near S. Cosimato (vi. 692).
(10) in
Region XIV, between the ponte Sisto and the Villa Faresina
(vi. 31024;
BC 1880, 133;
NS 1880, 141).
(11) in
Region XIVthe horti Caesaris (vi. 642 (A.D. 97), 31015;
Rosch. iv. 866; HJ 646).
Five other inscriptions (vi. 576, 589, 610, 656, 679) clearly refer to
shrines of which the location is unknown;
5 while others contain no
indication of any shrine, but belong apparently to statues only (
Rosch.
iv. 856-857; cf. Plin. NHxv. 77:
simulacrum Silvani (ante aedem Saturni)).
These are: (I) in
Region VI, at the north-west corner of the thermae.
Diocletiani, near S. Susanna (vi. 635=30805); (2) in Region VI, on the
Pincian near the Villa Medici (vi. 623; HJ 446)
6 ; (3) in
Region XIII, on
the Aventine near S. Saba (vi. 673, 31012=
EE iv. 755;
BC 1878, 29);
(4) in
Region XIII, within the limits of the emporium (vi. 3710=31002,
3718=31018;
BC 1872, 140, 166).
