Temple of Minerva Medica

For the well-preserved ruin from the 4th century, see Temple of Minerva Medica (nymphaeum).

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]

Temple Minerva Medica

Temple Minerva Medica Shown within Augustan Rome
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Coordinates	41°53′31″N 12°30′08″E

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.

See also

• List of Ancient Roman temples