ROMAPEDIA: Via Portuense

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Thursday, April 16, 2020

TEMPLE OF HERCULES LYING DOWN

TEMPIO DI HERCULES CUBANS
Via Portuense/Via Ettore Rolli

About first century BC

It was discovered in 1889
Here were found the “Eight herms of charioteers” now at the National Roman Museum of Palazzo Massimo

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ROMAPEDIA is a work of synthesis and anthology of the most authoritative and reliable sources of facts about the GREAT BEAUTY of Rome and the area of the Province of Rome.

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