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Regio IV - Insula I - Sacello IV,I,8
(Shrine)

This shrine, dedicated to an unknown deity, is on the east side of the Field of the Magna Mater (nr. 8 on the plan). It has an ante-room with brick pilasters and a geometric black-and-white mosaic, and a cella of opus reticulatum and latericium. It may have been built in the Severan period.



Plan of the east part of the temple-complex of the Magna Mater.
From Vermaseren 1977, fig. 24.

Photos



The ante-room seen from the north-west. Photo: Jan Theo Bakker.



The interior of the ante-room, seen from the west. Photo: Klaus Heese.


[jthb - 5-May-2022]