Temple of Minerva Medica
Building in Rome, Italy
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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 Athena Giustiniani had been found in its ruins.[2]
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  Temple Minerva Medica Shown within Augustan Rome | |
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Location
Its position in the regionary catalogue, between the campus Viminalis and the temple of Isis Patricia, points to a site in the northern part of Region V.[3] But hundreds of votive offerings, including one in which the temple is attested,[4] were discovered in the Via Curva (the modern Via Carlo Botta), just west of the Via Merulana, and this may be the better location.[5] Some tuff walls, resembling ritual trenches known as favissae were also found there.
