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Companion to Roman history (1912)
Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 115
es of the sacred hearth andwas cleaned out only on the 15th of June. Another early sanctuaryof circular form was the shrine of Cloacina, the goddess of sewers, 90 ARCHITECTURE CHAP. II the foundations of which have been discovered on the edge of theroad which skirts the north-east side of the… … © l-l Boarium, long miscalled the Temple of Vesta (PI. XV). It maybe identified either with the sanctuary of Portunus—the god ofthe harbour—or with that of Mater Matuta. The podium of tufa(faced with travertine) seems to be of early date: the cella andperistyle of twenty Corinthian columns, which…Art · Architecture
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