Shrine of Venus Cloacina
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Ryan Horne
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 26, 2020 11:50 AM
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History
tags:
Venus,
extant remains
The Sacrum Cloacina was a small shrine dedicated to Venus Cloacina, patron divinity of the sewer, and was located near the Tabernae novae in the Forum Romanum. The foundation of the sacellum is extant while images of its likely elevation are found on Roman coins.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/674507252
41.8925666372, 12.4854441072
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Sacello di Venere Cloacina (550 BC - AD 300)
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- sacrum Cloacina (Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Shrine of Venus Cloacina located at Forum Romanum (330 BC - AD 640)
- Shrine of Venus Cloacina connection Roma (unspecified date range)
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shrine
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- Arachne 2105552: Schrein der Venus Cloacina am Forum Forum Romanum
- Hopkins 2012
- Platner and Ashby 1929 (Perseus), CLOACINA, SACRUM
- RRC 494/43a. 1937.158.328
- ToposText Shrine of Venus Cloacina (Rome)
- Van Essen 1956, 137-144
- Wikipedia (English) Shrine of Venus Cloacina
- Wikipedia (German) Heiligtum der Venus Cloacina
- Related:
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, and Ryan Horne, 'Shrine of Venus Cloacina: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/674507252> [accessed: 10 June 2023]
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