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The Temple of Minerva Medica is a ruined nymphaeum of Imperial Rome which dates to the late 3rd or early 4th century CE. It is located between the Via Labicana and Aurelian Walls and just inside the line of the Anio Vetus. [1]
The temple of Minerva Medica (akin to the temple of Apollo Medicus) was a temple in ancient Rome, built on the Esquiline Hill in the Republican era, [1] though no remains of it have been found. Since the 17th century, it has been wrongly identified with the ruins of a nymphaeum on a nearby site , on account of the erroneous impression that the ...
Map of Rome showing the Seven Hills and Servian Wall The so-called "Temple of Minerva Medica", a nymphaeum. The Esquiline Hill (/ ˈ ɛ s k w ɪ l aɪ n /; Latin: Collis Esquilinus; Italian: Esquilino [eskwiˈliːno]) is one of the Seven Hills of Rome. Its southernmost cusp is the Oppius (Oppian Hill). A handbook of Rome and the Campagna (1899 ...
Nymphaeum often called (erroneously) the Temple of Minerva Medica; Temple of Portunus (formerly called the Temple of Fortuna Virilis), near Santa Maria in Cosmedin and the Temple of Hercules Victor; Temple of Romulus, very complete circular exterior, early 4th century – Roman Forum
Temple of Minerva Medica (nymphaeum) The nymphaeum called the Temple of Minerva Medica ("Minerva the Doctor") is a 4th-century ruin between the via Labicana and Aurelian Walls and just inside the line of the Anio Vetus. Once part of the Horti Liciniani on the Esquiline Hill, now it faces the modern via Giolitti.
According to one tradition, first recorded in the 18th century, it was recovered from the ruins of the nymphaeum on the Esquiline Hill mistakenly identified as a "Temple of Minerva Medica"; [6] according to the other, recorded in the 17th century by Pietro Santi Bartoli and more widely accepted by modern scholars, it was found in the Orto di ...
The 4th-century domed nymphaeum that survives, long miscalled a "Temple of Minerva Medica", is believed to have been part of the gardens. Excavations Map of ...
Temple of Minerva Medica (no longer extant) Nymphaeum called the 'Temple of Minerva Medica' Forum Boarium. Temple of Hercules Victor Temple of Portunus.