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Temple of Bellona, Rome

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recovered in the 1930s building works to enable the nearby Theatre to be seen in isolation. These remains belong to a reconstruction in the Augustan period which is not mentioned by the literary sources but is probably related to the transformation of the area during the construction of the Theatre
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In front of the temple was a column used in the archaic Roman ceremony for declaring war involved hurling a spear from Roman territory towards enemy territory. However, when for the first time Rome had to declare war on a state whose territory did not border her own (i.e.
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A circular area with the paving restored in front of this temple was interpreted in the excavations as the place where this column was sited, on the basis of literary references. This is now interpreted as where the
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These podium remains are made up of the cement infill between the load-bearing structures. (Those structures were constructed from
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wife) may have funded the rebuilding, or the dedicator may have been yet another
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for reuse after the temple was abandoned and now lost.) The structure of the
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at the end of campaigns) was sited before the temple of Apollo was built.
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The temple – long considered lost – was identified with the remains of a
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Plans of the Apollo and Bellona temples on the Comune di Roma site
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on his departure for his allotted province. Appius's descendant
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at the time of the 1930s excavation and work on the Capitol.
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The Roman ceremony of the declaration of war (Italian)
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The surviving remains and plan of the temple on the
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3rd-century BC establishments in the Roman Republic
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Temple of Bellona is located in Rome
41°53′33″N 12°28′48″E / 41.8924°N 12.4799°E / 41.8924; 12.4799
temple
goddess
war
Bellona
ancient Rome
Forum Olitorium
Carmental Gate
Temple of Apollo Sosianus
Theater of Marcellus

Theater of Marcellus
Forum Olitorium
temples of Apollo
Gismondi
scale model of imperial Rome
Museum of Roman Civilization
Appius Claudius Caecus
Samnite War
circus Flaminius
pomerium
Servian Wall
proconsul
Appius Claudius Pulcher
imagines clipeatae
Forma Urbis Romae
podium
Augustus

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