- Temple of Hadrian
The Temple of Hadrian is a temple to the deified
Hadrian on theCampus Martius inRome , built by his adoptive son and successorAntoninus Pius in145 and now incorporated into a later building in the Piazza di Pietra (Piazza of Stone - derived from use of the temple's stones to build the piazza). It was once erroneously known as the Temple of Neptune.One wall of the
cella survives, together with 11 of the 15-metre highCorinthian column s from the external colonnade, on a 4m highpeperino base. The fixing holes for its original marble covering can still be seen. This facade, along with thearchitrave (reconstructed after antiquity), was incorporated into a 17th century papal palace byCarlo Fontana now occupied by theBorsa bank. The building wasoctostyle and had 15 columns on each long side (4 have been lost from the surviving side).Inside the bank the remains of the non-apsidal
naos can be seen, once covered by abarrel vault supported on columns between which were battle-trophies. [ [https://www.scholarsresource.com/browse/work/1140541773 Work: Pedestal Relief, Roman trophies of war, from Temple of Hadrian ] ] The base of the columns had reliefs of personifications of the provinces of the empire (some of which are now in theNational Roman Museum andCapitoline Museums demonstrating Hadrian's less warlike policy than his predecessorTrajan . [ [http://www.museicapitolini.org/percorsi/percorsi_per_sale/museo_del_palazzo_dei_conservatori/cortile/plinto_con_personificazione_di_provincia_achaia_dal_tempio_di_adriano Achaia] ] [http://www.vroma.org/images/rthompson_images/Mus_Cap.T.Hadr.03.jpg] [http://www.vroma.org/images/rthompson_images/Mus_Cap.T.Hadr.jpg] [ [https://www.scholarsresource.com/browse/work/1826204156 Work: Pedestal Reliefs, Allegories of Roman provinces, from Temple of Hadrian ] ] [ [http://www.museicapitolini.org/percorsi/galleria_fotografica Image 12] ]The temple had a large square arcade surrounded by columns in giallo antico and which opened onto the Via Lata (now the
Via del Corso ) through atriumphal arch . This arch has been identified as the one called the "arch of Antoninus" in later sources, but has also been called the "arch of Claudius" and the "arch of theTosetti ", from the name of the family that inhabited Piazza Sciarra (now disappeared due to road-widening of the Via del Corso). Despite having fallen into ruin and been demolished, the arch still gave its name in the 18th century to the 'Via dell'Archetto'.References
External links
* [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Hadrianeum.html Platner and Ashby]
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