"Tempio di Minerva Medica" / Bath Building , Rom

Text (verändert und ohne Fußnoten) aus: Chrystina Häuber, The Eastern Part of the Mons Oppius in Rome: the Sanctuary of Isis et Serapis in Regio III, the Temples of Minerva Medica, Fortuna Virgo, and the Dea Syria, and the Horti of Maecenas. With Contributions by Edoardo Gautier di Confiengo and Daniela Velestino, 22. Suppl. Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma, BullCom, 2014, Roma (<L'ERMA> di Bretschneider). Seiten 110-111:

I.9. The Servian city wall and the temple of ‘Minerva Medica’/ Fortuna Virgo

        "There is one function which might appear as specifically Roman:
         it is the healing Minerva, Minerva Medica, whose Roman sanctuary was on the Esquiline …"

                         Fritz Graf

Alexander G. Thein observes that we do not know whether the shrine of Minerva Medica was a templum or an aedes. Map 3 shows four attempts to locate it:

1.) on Via Giovanni Giolitti, at the junction with Via Pietro Micca (“Tempio di Minerva Medica”/Bath building); [see Photos on this website]

2.) on the south-west side of the former old Via Curva, the predecessor of the ‘new Via Curva’/Via Carlo Botta (“MINERVA MEDICA”/FORTUNA VIRGO);

3.) on the roof terrace of the substructure on Via Pasquale Villari/‘Terme di Filippo’ (58a-d “Terme di Filippo”; Temple: MINERVA MEDICA);

4.) within the Isolato between modern Via Merulana, Via Guicciardini, Via Carlo Botta and Via Angelo Poliziano (site of round Temple (?) Imperial period: “MINERVA MEDICA”).

Pirro Ligorio made the first suggestion, based on the erroneous assumption that the statue called Athena Giustiniani was found there; the second, third and fourth suggestions are discussed in this study. By writing the name of the temple in (3) with capital letters and without inverted commas, I indicate that this is in my opinion the correct location of Minerva Medica; the second suggestion is in my opinion the correct location of the mid-Republican (or archaic) shrine, excavated on the former old Via Curva. Because of its location, this cannot be the shrine of Minerva Medica in Regio V – this is in my opinion the temple of Fortuna Virgo.

The course of the Servian city wall in this part of the Mons Oppius, shown in my first reconstruction (fig. 23; cf. here maps 3; 17, label: Servian city Wall), differs from that of most recent scholars, who follow a combination of Säflund’s and Colini’s reconstructions. In the meantime some scholars follow my reconstruction (fig. 23) or a reconstruction by another scholar who followed it, but without addressing the reason for that decision. My new proposals (maps 3; 17) are inter alia based on Angelo Pellegrini’s report of 1873; cf. Appendix II. Conclusive for this matter are two remarks by Carlo Ludovico Visconti, the excavator of the temple of ‘Minerva Medica’ found on the old Via Curva/Carlo Botta (cf. infra).

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