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CONCORDIA, AEDES, TEMPLUM
time, close to the temple on the north. In 7 b.c. Tiberius undertook to
restore the temple with his spoils from Germany (Cass. Dio lv. 8. 2), and
the structure was completed and dedicated as aedes Concordiae Augustae,
in the name of Tiberius and his dead brother Drusus, on 16th January,
10 a.d. (Ov. Fast. i. 640, 643-648 ; Cass. Dio lvi. 25 ; Suet. Tib. 20, where
the year is given as 12 a.d.). It is represented on coins (Cohen, Tib.
68-70; BM. Tib. 116, 132-4). A later restoration, perhaps after the fire
of 284, is recorded in an inscription (CIL vi. 89), which was seen on the
pronaos of the temple by the copyist of the inscriptions in the Einsiedeln
Itinerary.
After the restoration by Opimius, this temple was frequently used
for assemblies of the senate (Cic. Cat. iii. 21 : pro Sest. 26 ; de domo
in ; Phil. ii. 19, 112 ; iii. 31 ; v. 18 ; Sall. Cat. 46, 49 ; Cass. Dio lviii.
11. 4; Hist. Aug. Pert. 4; Alex. Sev. 6; Max. et Balb. 1, cf. Herod,
ii. IO; Prob. II ; Hermes, 1875, 290-291 ; Willems, Le Senat romain
ii. 159), and as a meeting-place for the Arvai Brethren (see Henzen, p. 5,
for list from 63 a.d. ; DE i. 176).
Tiberius compelled the Rhodians to sell him a statue of Vesta for
this temple (Cass. Dio lv. 9. 6), and it evidently became a sort of museum,
for Pliny mentions many works of art that were placed in it—statues of
Apollo and Juno by Baton (xxxiv. 73), Latona with the infant Apollo
and Diana by Euphranor (77), Aesculapius and Hygeia by Niceratus (80),
Mars and Mercury by Piston (89), Ceres Jupiter and Minerva by Sthennis
(90), paintings of Marsyas by Zeuxis (xxxv. 66), Liber by Nicias (131),
Cassandra by Theodorus (144) ; four elephants of obsidian dedicated by
Augustus (196) ; and a famous sardonyx that had belonged to Polycrates
of Samos (xxxvii. 4 ; see also Jacobi, Grundzuge einer Museographie
d. Stadt Rom zur Zeit d. Kaisers Augustus, 1884).
A few other incidental references to the temple occur (Vai. Max. ix. 7. 4;
Cass. Dio xlvii. 2 ; xlix. 18 ; 1. 8), and gifts were deposited here by order
of the senate in 16 a.d. after the alleged conspiracy of Libo (Tac. Ann.
ii. 32). Several dedicatory inscriptions have been found among its ruins
(CIL vi. 90-94, 30856, 30857), and three others mention an aedituus of
the temple (2204, 2205, 8703). It is represented on a coin of Orbiana,
the wife of Alexander Severus (Froehner, Med. 177-1781), and on a frag-
ment (22) of the Marble Plan ; and is mentioned in the Regionary
Catalogue (Reg. VIII). The structure was threatening to collapse in the
time of Hadrian I, 772-795 a.d. (LPD i. 512, 522).
Its situation with respect to other buildings and the contour of the
ground led to the adoption of a plan which made this structure unique
among Roman temples (FUR fr. 22). Instead of having the usual
proportions, the cella of the Augustan temple was 45 metres wide and
only 24 deep, while the pronaos was only 34 metres wide and 14 deep,
and therefore did not extend across the whole front of the cella. The
1 Cohen, Alex. Sev. et Orbiana, 3.
CONCORDIA, AEDES, TEMPLUM
time, close to the temple on the north. In 7 b.c. Tiberius undertook to
restore the temple with his spoils from Germany (Cass. Dio lv. 8. 2), and
the structure was completed and dedicated as aedes Concordiae Augustae,
in the name of Tiberius and his dead brother Drusus, on 16th January,
10 a.d. (Ov. Fast. i. 640, 643-648 ; Cass. Dio lvi. 25 ; Suet. Tib. 20, where
the year is given as 12 a.d.). It is represented on coins (Cohen, Tib.
68-70; BM. Tib. 116, 132-4). A later restoration, perhaps after the fire
of 284, is recorded in an inscription (CIL vi. 89), which was seen on the
pronaos of the temple by the copyist of the inscriptions in the Einsiedeln
Itinerary.
After the restoration by Opimius, this temple was frequently used
for assemblies of the senate (Cic. Cat. iii. 21 : pro Sest. 26 ; de domo
in ; Phil. ii. 19, 112 ; iii. 31 ; v. 18 ; Sall. Cat. 46, 49 ; Cass. Dio lviii.
11. 4; Hist. Aug. Pert. 4; Alex. Sev. 6; Max. et Balb. 1, cf. Herod,
ii. IO; Prob. II ; Hermes, 1875, 290-291 ; Willems, Le Senat romain
ii. 159), and as a meeting-place for the Arvai Brethren (see Henzen, p. 5,
for list from 63 a.d. ; DE i. 176).
Tiberius compelled the Rhodians to sell him a statue of Vesta for
this temple (Cass. Dio lv. 9. 6), and it evidently became a sort of museum,
for Pliny mentions many works of art that were placed in it—statues of
Apollo and Juno by Baton (xxxiv. 73), Latona with the infant Apollo
and Diana by Euphranor (77), Aesculapius and Hygeia by Niceratus (80),
Mars and Mercury by Piston (89), Ceres Jupiter and Minerva by Sthennis
(90), paintings of Marsyas by Zeuxis (xxxv. 66), Liber by Nicias (131),
Cassandra by Theodorus (144) ; four elephants of obsidian dedicated by
Augustus (196) ; and a famous sardonyx that had belonged to Polycrates
of Samos (xxxvii. 4 ; see also Jacobi, Grundzuge einer Museographie
d. Stadt Rom zur Zeit d. Kaisers Augustus, 1884).
A few other incidental references to the temple occur (Vai. Max. ix. 7. 4;
Cass. Dio xlvii. 2 ; xlix. 18 ; 1. 8), and gifts were deposited here by order
of the senate in 16 a.d. after the alleged conspiracy of Libo (Tac. Ann.
ii. 32). Several dedicatory inscriptions have been found among its ruins
(CIL vi. 90-94, 30856, 30857), and three others mention an aedituus of
the temple (2204, 2205, 8703). It is represented on a coin of Orbiana,
the wife of Alexander Severus (Froehner, Med. 177-1781), and on a frag-
ment (22) of the Marble Plan ; and is mentioned in the Regionary
Catalogue (Reg. VIII). The structure was threatening to collapse in the
time of Hadrian I, 772-795 a.d. (LPD i. 512, 522).
Its situation with respect to other buildings and the contour of the
ground led to the adoption of a plan which made this structure unique
among Roman temples (FUR fr. 22). Instead of having the usual
proportions, the cella of the Augustan temple was 45 metres wide and
only 24 deep, while the pronaos was only 34 metres wide and 14 deep,
and therefore did not extend across the whole front of the cella. The
1 Cohen, Alex. Sev. et Orbiana, 3.