Back معبد ضريح فينوس كلواسينا ARZ Sacellum de Venus Cloacina Catalan Heiligtum der Venus Cloacina German Ιερό της Αφροδίτης Κλοακίνας Greek Sacellum de Venus Cloacina Spanish Sacellum de la Vénus Cloacina French Sacello di Venere Cloacina Italian Tempel van Venus Cloacina Dutch Santuário da Vênus Cloacina Portuguese Святилище Венеры-Клоакины Russian
 Denarius of L. Mussidius Longus (42 BC) showing two elevated statues within the balustrade of the shrine of Venus Cloacina[1] | |
  Shrine of Venus Cloacina Shown in ancient Rome | |
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The Shrine of Venus Cloacina (Sacellum Cloacinae or Sacrum Cloacina) was a small sanctuary on the Roman Forum, honoring the divinity of the Cloaca Maxima, the "Great Drain" or sewer of Rome.[2] Cloacina, the Etruscan goddess associated with the entrance to the sewer system, was later identified with the Roman goddess Venus for unknown reasons, according to Pliny the Elder.[3]
- ^ Crawford 494/42b; CRI 188a; Sydenham 1093a; Mussidia 6
- ^ Mark Bradley (26 July 2012). Rome, Pollution and Propriety: Dirt, Disease and Hygiene in the Eternal City from Antiquity to Modernity. Cambridge University Press. pp. 96–. ISBN 978-1-107-01443-5.
- ^ Samuel Ball Platner (21 May 2015). A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Cambridge University Press. pp. 128–. ISBN 978-1-108-08324-9.