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IUPPITER STATOR
it was kept what was evidently a bit of liturgy composed by Livius
Andronicus (Liv. xxvii. 37. 7). The day of dedication is given by Ovid
(Fast. vi. 793) as 27th January, but this may perhaps be that of a later
restoration, and not of Regulus’ temple (WR 122-123). In fact, we
learn from Fast. Ant. ap. NS 1921, hi, that either this temple or that
in the porticus Metelli was dedicated on 5th September ; and, as Hemer.
Urb. (cited below) associates that temple with that of luno Regina,
the reference in Fast. Ant. may be taken to be to the temple now
under discussion. Two inscriptions of the later empire (CIL vi. 434,
435) probably belong to this temple, and it is mentioned in the fourth
century (Not.).
Just east of the arch of Titus, a site corresponding with the literary
references, are ruins consisting of a large rectangular platform of concrete,
on which are some enormous blocks of peperino and travertine (Hermes,
1885, 412). On this foundation the mediaeval turris Cartularia was
built (for the explanation of this name, see Rend, dei Lincei 1912,
767-772 ; AJA 1913, 569),1 which was not torn down until 1829. This
foundation has generally been identified as that of the temple of Iuppiter
Stator of the Flavian period (LR 200 ; PIC 250-252 ; CR 1905, 75 ; BC
1903, 18; 1914, 93; 1917, 79-84; TF 89; DR 178-182; RE Suppl.
iv. 480, 481). Some tufa walls, recently excavated close to the north-
east side of the arch and beneath its foundations, may have belonged to
the temple at an earlier date when its position was slightly different
(YW 1908, 23 ; CR 1909, 61), but the supposition is very doubtful.
Others have sought it on the area Palatina, but wrongly (HJ 22).
For a republican inscription on some blocks of tufa there (not on our
site), see CIL i2. 1009=vi. 29842 (cf. 36615). It bears the names of two
Greek artificers Philocrates and Diocles. See HJ 20-23 ; Rosch. ii.
682-684.
Iuppiter Stator, aedes (templum, Pliny) : a temple which, with that
of luno Regina and the enclosing Porticus Metelli (q.v.), was built by
Q. Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus after his triumph in 146 b.c. (Veil,
i. 11. 3). It is referred to as aedes lovis Metellina (Fest. 363) and aedes
Metelli (Plin. NH xxxvi. 40 ; CIL vi. 8708). It was inside the porticus
Metelli (Vitr. iii. 2. 5), close to the circus Flaminius (Macrob. iii. 4. 2 ;
Hemer. Urb., CIL i2. p. 252, 339), and its exact site is known, beneath the
church of S. Maria in Campitelli. The temple of Juno was just wrest of
this, on the opposite side of the Via della Tribuna di Campitelli. It is
not stated in so many words by Velleius (loc. cit.) that Metellus built
both temples, but this is the natural inference from the passage. He is
also said to have been the first to build a temple in Rome entirely of marble,
and this statement probably applies to both structures. In front of the
1 In brief, it derived its name not from the fact that it ever contained the papal archives,
but from its proximity to the building in which they were kept, which was itself situated on
the Palatine. Cf. also Roma vi. (1928) 97, 98.
IUPPITER STATOR
it was kept what was evidently a bit of liturgy composed by Livius
Andronicus (Liv. xxvii. 37. 7). The day of dedication is given by Ovid
(Fast. vi. 793) as 27th January, but this may perhaps be that of a later
restoration, and not of Regulus’ temple (WR 122-123). In fact, we
learn from Fast. Ant. ap. NS 1921, hi, that either this temple or that
in the porticus Metelli was dedicated on 5th September ; and, as Hemer.
Urb. (cited below) associates that temple with that of luno Regina,
the reference in Fast. Ant. may be taken to be to the temple now
under discussion. Two inscriptions of the later empire (CIL vi. 434,
435) probably belong to this temple, and it is mentioned in the fourth
century (Not.).
Just east of the arch of Titus, a site corresponding with the literary
references, are ruins consisting of a large rectangular platform of concrete,
on which are some enormous blocks of peperino and travertine (Hermes,
1885, 412). On this foundation the mediaeval turris Cartularia was
built (for the explanation of this name, see Rend, dei Lincei 1912,
767-772 ; AJA 1913, 569),1 which was not torn down until 1829. This
foundation has generally been identified as that of the temple of Iuppiter
Stator of the Flavian period (LR 200 ; PIC 250-252 ; CR 1905, 75 ; BC
1903, 18; 1914, 93; 1917, 79-84; TF 89; DR 178-182; RE Suppl.
iv. 480, 481). Some tufa walls, recently excavated close to the north-
east side of the arch and beneath its foundations, may have belonged to
the temple at an earlier date when its position was slightly different
(YW 1908, 23 ; CR 1909, 61), but the supposition is very doubtful.
Others have sought it on the area Palatina, but wrongly (HJ 22).
For a republican inscription on some blocks of tufa there (not on our
site), see CIL i2. 1009=vi. 29842 (cf. 36615). It bears the names of two
Greek artificers Philocrates and Diocles. See HJ 20-23 ; Rosch. ii.
682-684.
Iuppiter Stator, aedes (templum, Pliny) : a temple which, with that
of luno Regina and the enclosing Porticus Metelli (q.v.), was built by
Q. Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus after his triumph in 146 b.c. (Veil,
i. 11. 3). It is referred to as aedes lovis Metellina (Fest. 363) and aedes
Metelli (Plin. NH xxxvi. 40 ; CIL vi. 8708). It was inside the porticus
Metelli (Vitr. iii. 2. 5), close to the circus Flaminius (Macrob. iii. 4. 2 ;
Hemer. Urb., CIL i2. p. 252, 339), and its exact site is known, beneath the
church of S. Maria in Campitelli. The temple of Juno was just wrest of
this, on the opposite side of the Via della Tribuna di Campitelli. It is
not stated in so many words by Velleius (loc. cit.) that Metellus built
both temples, but this is the natural inference from the passage. He is
also said to have been the first to build a temple in Rome entirely of marble,
and this statement probably applies to both structures. In front of the
1 In brief, it derived its name not from the fact that it ever contained the papal archives,
but from its proximity to the building in which they were kept, which was itself situated on
the Palatine. Cf. also Roma vi. (1928) 97, 98.