List of temples dedicated to Hadrian
This is a list of Roman temples dedicated to the deified emperor Hadrian. Such a temple was called a Hadrianeum.
- A temple was constructed in Caesarea in connection with a visit by Hadrian. It may have continued to function as a pagan temple into the 6th century.[1]
- The temple was begun after an earthquake in 123, when Hadrian arrived to oversee rebuilding. It was finished in 139. According to John Malalas, there was a marble bust of Hadrian on the roof.[2]
- The temple was built after Hadrian's death by . It contained a triumphal gate in imitation of the Arch of Hadrian in Athens.[2]
- The great Temple of Hadrian in Rome was built by his successor, Antoninus Pius, in 145.[3]
- A temple here has been dated to the reign of Antoninus Pius. The remains of an emperor's statue have been tentatively identified as Hadrian.[2]
- Construction of a temple in Tiberias was begun but perhaps not completed. It was until recently known only from the late 4th-century testimony of Epiphanius of Salamis, who received it from Joseph of Tiberias, who claimed to have built a church on the never completed Hadrianeum, which itself had been converted into a public bath.[4] The remains of this temple were discovered in 2004.[5] It was probably constructed in 119/120 in connection with a local issue of coinage by Hadrian.[6]
References[]
- ^ Lee I. Levine, Caesarea Under Roman Rule (E. J. Brill, 1975), pp. 42 and 188n.
- ^ a b c Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule, Roman Imperial Art in Greece and Asia Minor (Belknap Press, 1968), pp. 255–258.
- ^ Amanda Claridge, Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 40–41.
- ^ Gregory William Stoehr, The End of Pagan Temples in Roman Palestine (PhD diss., University of Maryland, 2018), pp. 107–108.
- ^ Yizhar Hirschfeld and Eran Meir, "Tiberias – 2004", Hadashot Arkheologiyot: Excavations and Surveys in Israel 118 (2006). JSTOR 2658413.
- ^ Marcus Sigismund, "Small Change? Coins and Weights as a Mirror of Ethnic, Religious and Political Identity in 1st/2nd Century C.E. Tiberias", in Jürgen Zangenberg, Harold W. Attridge and Dale B. Martin (eds.), Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity in Ancient Galilee: A Region in Transition (Mohr Siebeck, 2007), p. 329.
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