• The Temple of Venus in Aelia Capitolina was a temple in Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem), dedicated to the Goddess Venus. The temple was founded on the order...
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    Aelia Capitolina (Latin: Colonia Aelia Capitolina [kɔˈloːni.a ˈae̯li.a kapɪtoːˈliːna]) was a Roman colony founded during the Roman emperor Hadrian's visit...
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    Ancient Rome, located on the Capitoline Hill. It was surrounded by the Area Capitolina, a precinct where numerous shrines, altars, statues and victory trophies...
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    temple was probably in the Area Capitolina, by the great Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus.[citation needed] Temple of Venus Erycina (Quirinal Hill) List...
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    Capitolina, and forbids Jewish and Christian presence in the city. c. 136–140: A Temple to Jupiter is built on the Temple Mount and a temple to Venus...
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    Little was actually completed in Michelangelo's lifetime (the Cordonata Capitolina was not in place when Emperor Charles arrived, and the imperial party...
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    Tabula Iliaca located at the Hall of the Doves The statue of Capitoline Venus, from an original by Praxiteles (4th century BC) The Galleria di Congiunzione...
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    of ancient Rome. It was probably situated at the entrance to the Area Capitolina, the sanctuary of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill, near the much older...
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    called Regina ("Queen") and was a member of the Capitoline Triad (Juno Capitolina), centered on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, and also including Jupiter...
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    Romans rebuilt parts of the destroyed city as the pagan city of Aelia Capitolina, the camp found itself at the end of the cardo maximus. At the time, Legio...
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    Fillipo. 2022. "La découverte du temple de Jupiter Tonans dans l’area Capitolina." In TOPOGRAPHIE ET URBANISME DE LA ROME ANTIQUE edited by Philippe Fleury...
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    emperor Hadrian began the building of a Roman colony, the new city of Aelia Capitolina, on the site. About AD 135, he ordered that a cave containing a rock-cut...
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    Fora (2007 onwards) in: the "Fori Imperiali," of the: Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali,' Roma (2007) [text only available in Italian. Lucentini...
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  • area after the destruction of the city until its rebuilding as Aelia Capitolina in c. 130 AD, when all Jews were banished from Jerusalem. The first Gentiles...
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    contradicted each other, since Hadrian's rebuilding of Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina predated Helena's pilgrimage there by close to two centuries. After the...
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    Emperor Hadrian's decision to rebuild Jerusalem under the name of Aelia Capitolina, a city dedicated to Jupiter, precipitated the bloodbath of the Bar Kokhba...
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    Lazio Rugby football in Rome Italy national rugby union team Unione Rugby Capitolina S.S. Lazio Rugby 1927 Olympics in Rome 1960 Summer Olympics 1960 Summer...
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    by the elder Mazar. The exclusion of Jews from the new city of Aelia Capitolina meant that gentile bishops were appointed under the authority of the Metropolitans...
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    province's name by renaming it Syria Palaestina. He renamed Jerusalem Aelia Capitolina after himself and Jupiter Capitolinus and had it rebuilt in Greek style...
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    La Lupa Capitolina ("the Capitoline Wolf"). Traditional scholarship says the wolf-figure is Etruscan, 5th century BC. The figures of Romulus and Remus...
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    ruins of Jerusalem in Judaea and rebuilt the city, renaming it Aelia Capitolina after himself and Jupiter Capitolinus, the chief deity of Rome. Hadrian...
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    of Constantine the Great (r. 306–337) in the military colony of Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem), when he destroyed a pagan temple for the purpose of constructing...
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    part of Hadrian's reconstruction of Jerusalem as a new pagan city, Aelia Capitolina, after 130, following the destruction of the formerly Jewish city at the...
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    during the 130s a temple to Venus over the supposed site of Jesus' tomb near Calvary, and renamed the city Aelia Capitolina. Accounts differ concerning...
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    architectural model for his provincial temples. When Hadrian built Aelia Capitolina on the site of Jerusalem, a temple to Jupiter Capitolinus was erected...
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  • by scholars, include Hadrian's establishment of the pagan colony Aelia Capitolina on the ruins of Jerusalem and his prohibition of circumcision. Led by...
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    9788877792846, p 298 (in Italian) S. Guarino and P. Masini, Pinacoteca capitolina - Catalogo generale, in Musei in Comune, Roma, Editore Mondadori Electa...
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    Musei Capitolini). (in Italian) S. Guarino and P. Masini, Pinacoteca capitolina - Catalogo generale, in Musei in Comune, Roma, Editore Mondadori Electa...
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    refers to the Roman origin of the family and is the mythical she-wolf Lupa Capitolina Romana who would have protected the founder of the dynasty Furio Camillo...
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    168×115 cm, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Mary Magdalene, Rome, Pinacoteca Capitolina Jacopo Tintoretto Prince Philip II's Entry into Mantua, oil on canvas...
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