Ruins of the temple of Castor and Pollux, called the temple of Jupiter Stator, Rome. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1748.

Apparently the three columns of the temple of Castor and Pollux in the Roman Forum (the interpretation of Hind, loc. cit.). Alternatively, the 'Three fluted columns of white marble belonging to the temple of Juno, 12.50 metres in height and 1.25 in diameter, with Corinthian capitals and entablature, [which] are visible in No. 11 of that street [Via di S. Angelo in Pescheria]" described by Ashby. However the temples of Antoninus and Faustina and of Peace would not have been visible from there. There was another temple of Jupiter Stator, in the Roman Forum, but no columns survive from it, and if this is meant to be it, the arch of Titus has been removed

Left, the temple of Antoninus and Faustina. Centre background, the temple of Peace. On the right a herd of cows is grazing

[Roma (dirimpetto l'Academia di Franzia)] : [si vende dall'autore], [1748]

1 print : etching ; platemark 13.5 x 26.8 cm

Vestigi del tempio di Giove Statore. 1. Tempio d'Antonino e Faustina. 2. Tempio della Pace. Piranesi fecit. Bears number: Tav. 10

A.M. Hind, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: a critical study, with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome, New York 1922, p. 76, no. 10 (temple "now known as temple of Castor and Pollux")

Samuel Ball Platner (as completed and revised by Thomas Ashby), A topographical dictionary of ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press, 1929, pp. 303305

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