Capitolium

Quality 0.50 · 2 views · Updated 2 months ago

Roman temple

title: "Capitolium" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["capitoliums", "ancient-roman-architecture"] description: "Roman temple" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitolium" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Roman temple ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Capitolium_in_Ostia.jpg" caption="''Capitolium'' in [[Ostia Antica"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Tempio_Capitolino_Piazza_del_Foro_Brescia.jpg" caption="[[Capitolium of Brixia"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Volubilis_Longshot_II.jpg" caption="[[Capitoline Temple]] at Volubilis"] ::

A Capitolium (Latin) was an ancient Roman temple dedicated to the Capitoline Triad of gods Jupiter, Juno and Minerva. A capitolium was built on a prominent area in many cities in Italy and the Roman provinces, particularly during the Augustan and Julio-Claudian periods. Most had a triple cella, one for each god.

The first capitolium was on the Capitoline Hill in Rome and was considered the centre of the city, where it meant the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus and afterwards the Latin word was used for the whole hill.

The earliest known example outside of Italy was at Emporion (now Empúries, Spain).

Examples of capitolia are:

Capitolium Vetus (Rome)
Temple of Jupiter (Pompeii)
Capitolium of Minturnae
Capitolium of Ostia Antica
Capitolium of Brixia (Brescia)
Capitolium of Constantinople
Capitoline Temple at Volubilis
Capitolium of Cosa

References

Richardson, L. (1992). ''A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome'' (p. 70). Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. {{ISBN. 0-8018-4300-6.
Blagg, T.F.C. (1990). "The temple at [[Bath, Somerset. Bath]] ([[Aquae Sulis]]) in the context of classical temples in the western European provinces" (pp. 426–427). ''Journal of Roman Archaeology'' 3 (pp. 419–430).

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::