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NAVALE INFERIUS—NEPTUNUS, AEDES
179 Navalis porta a vicinia navalium dicta (where a city gate is certainly
not in question), Plin. NH xxxvi. 40—do not give us any topographical
indications, so that it is not certain to which navalia they refer.
Hiilsen also thinks that a coin of Antoninus Pius (Coh. No. 17 ; cf.
Zeitschr. f. Num. 1900, 32) represents, notabridge, but the navalia with
the Aventine in the background (cf. Mitt. 1886, 168; 1900, 352-354).1
A painting known to us only by drawings, which had been attributed to
the Aventine (Mitt. 1896, 213-226) has been rightly referred to Puteoli by
Hiilsen (HJ 322), Dubois (Pouzzoles antique 201-219) and Carcopino
(Rev. Arch. 1913, ii. 253-270 ; cf. PBS vii. 57-58 ; CIL vi. 36613).
The fragment of the forma Urbis (61) with the inscription navalemfer,
which Hiilsen had brought in as an argument, he now prefers to omit, as
the external characteristics of the fragment make it impossible to place
it in the neighbourhood of the circus Maximus ; so that it probably
belongs to the region of the horrea, south of the Aventine (HJ 145, n. 81 ;
but the necessary alterations have not been made in the plans attached
to KH).
See also Richter 201-203 J Merlin 131-133.
Navale Inferius : see above.
Nemus Caesarum : see Naumachia Augusti.
Neptunus, ara : an altar of Neptune in circo Flaminio, the sweating of
which is mentioned by Livy (xxviii. 11. 4) among the prodigia of 206 b.c.
The same prodigium, however, is related by Cassius Dio (fr. lvii. 60) in
words that imply a real temple (ηΐοωτί πολλω α7 re θύραι του Τίοσειδωνίου
καί ό βωμός ερρύη), and it is probable that such a temple did exist at that
time (see below).
Neptunus, aedes, delubrum : a temple of Neptune in circo Flaminio
mentioned on an inscription of the Flavian period (CIL vi. 8423 : Abas-
canti Aug. lib. aedituo aedis Neptuni quae est in circo Flaminio), and
without doubt by Pliny (NH xxxvi. 26), who states that a famous group
by Scopas of Neptune, Thetis, Achilles, the Nereids and Tritons, Phorcus
and his crew, sea-monsters, etc., was in delubro Cn. Domitii in circo
Flaminio. A coin of Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus (RE v. 1331, No. 25),
struck between 42 and 38 b.c. (Babeion, Monnaies i. 466, Domitia 20,
BM. Rep. ii. 487. 93), represents a tetrastyle temple with the legend
Nept. Cn. Domitius M. f. Imp. This indicates that the temple was vowed
at least between 42 and 38, but it may not have been built before 32,
when Domitius had been reconciled to Augustus and held the consulship.
The group of Scopas he probably brought from Bithynia, his province.
The day of dedication of this temple was 1st December (Fast. Amit. ad
Kai. Dec., CIL i2. p. 245, 335). To this temple also have been held to belong
the parts of a frieze that were preserved (though this is no proof of their
provenance) in the Palazzo Santacroce and are now in Paris and Munich
1 See, however, JRS 1911, 187-195.
NAVALE INFERIUS—NEPTUNUS, AEDES
179 Navalis porta a vicinia navalium dicta (where a city gate is certainly
not in question), Plin. NH xxxvi. 40—do not give us any topographical
indications, so that it is not certain to which navalia they refer.
Hiilsen also thinks that a coin of Antoninus Pius (Coh. No. 17 ; cf.
Zeitschr. f. Num. 1900, 32) represents, notabridge, but the navalia with
the Aventine in the background (cf. Mitt. 1886, 168; 1900, 352-354).1
A painting known to us only by drawings, which had been attributed to
the Aventine (Mitt. 1896, 213-226) has been rightly referred to Puteoli by
Hiilsen (HJ 322), Dubois (Pouzzoles antique 201-219) and Carcopino
(Rev. Arch. 1913, ii. 253-270 ; cf. PBS vii. 57-58 ; CIL vi. 36613).
The fragment of the forma Urbis (61) with the inscription navalemfer,
which Hiilsen had brought in as an argument, he now prefers to omit, as
the external characteristics of the fragment make it impossible to place
it in the neighbourhood of the circus Maximus ; so that it probably
belongs to the region of the horrea, south of the Aventine (HJ 145, n. 81 ;
but the necessary alterations have not been made in the plans attached
to KH).
See also Richter 201-203 J Merlin 131-133.
Navale Inferius : see above.
Nemus Caesarum : see Naumachia Augusti.
Neptunus, ara : an altar of Neptune in circo Flaminio, the sweating of
which is mentioned by Livy (xxviii. 11. 4) among the prodigia of 206 b.c.
The same prodigium, however, is related by Cassius Dio (fr. lvii. 60) in
words that imply a real temple (ηΐοωτί πολλω α7 re θύραι του Τίοσειδωνίου
καί ό βωμός ερρύη), and it is probable that such a temple did exist at that
time (see below).
Neptunus, aedes, delubrum : a temple of Neptune in circo Flaminio
mentioned on an inscription of the Flavian period (CIL vi. 8423 : Abas-
canti Aug. lib. aedituo aedis Neptuni quae est in circo Flaminio), and
without doubt by Pliny (NH xxxvi. 26), who states that a famous group
by Scopas of Neptune, Thetis, Achilles, the Nereids and Tritons, Phorcus
and his crew, sea-monsters, etc., was in delubro Cn. Domitii in circo
Flaminio. A coin of Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus (RE v. 1331, No. 25),
struck between 42 and 38 b.c. (Babeion, Monnaies i. 466, Domitia 20,
BM. Rep. ii. 487. 93), represents a tetrastyle temple with the legend
Nept. Cn. Domitius M. f. Imp. This indicates that the temple was vowed
at least between 42 and 38, but it may not have been built before 32,
when Domitius had been reconciled to Augustus and held the consulship.
The group of Scopas he probably brought from Bithynia, his province.
The day of dedication of this temple was 1st December (Fast. Amit. ad
Kai. Dec., CIL i2. p. 245, 335). To this temple also have been held to belong
the parts of a frieze that were preserved (though this is no proof of their
provenance) in the Palazzo Santacroce and are now in Paris and Munich
1 See, however, JRS 1911, 187-195.