Temple of Ops
  Temple of Ops Shown in ancient Rome | |
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| Coordinates | 41°53′30″N 12°28′54″E / 41.8917°N 12.4816°E |
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The Temple of Ops was a minor temple on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. It was dedicated to Ops (later known as Abundantia), the deity of abundance.
The temple is first mentioned in 186 BC. It was on the southern part of the Area Capitolina, slightly to the north of the
Temple of Faith, in a vast piazza in front of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus. It collapsed several times. The temple is last mentioned in 17 AD. If still in use by the 4th-century, it would have been closed during the persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire
.
Remains found near the church of
Asia Minor
and the Roman Senate - Faith was the goddess of diplomatic relations.
See also
Bibliography
- Filippo Coarelli, Guida archeologica di Roma, Verona, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1984.
- http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Aedes_Opis.html