Shrine of Venus Cloacina
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Ryan Horne
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 16, 2018 04:47 PM
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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
- OSM location of Sacello di Venere Cloacina (550 BC - AD 300)
- sacrum Cloacina (Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Shrine of Venus Cloacina 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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- Hopkins, J. 2012. “The Sacred Sewer: Tradition and Religion in Rome’s Cloaca Maxima.” In Pollution and propriety: dirt, disease and hygiene in Rome from antiquity to modernity, edited by Mark Bradley, 81-102. Cambridge University Press.
- Platner and Ashby 1929 (Perseus), CLOACINA, SACRUM
- RRC 494/43a. 1937.158.328
- Van Essen 1956, 137-144
- Wikipedia (English) Shrine of Venus Cloacina
- Wikipedia (German) Heiligtum der Venus Cloacina
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, and Ryan Horne, 'Shrine of Venus Cloacina: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/674507252> [accessed: 24 July 2019]
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