Temple of Quirinus
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The Temple of Quirinus (Latin: Aedes Quirini or Templum Quirini) was an ancient Roman temple built on the western half of the Quirinal Hill near the Capitolium Vetus, on a site which now equates to the junction between Via del Quirinale and Via delle Quattro Fontane, beside Piazza Barberini.{{cite book|author=Samuel Ball Platner|title=A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SYqFBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA438|date=21 May 2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-08324-9|pages=438–}}{{cite book|author=Filippo Coarelli|title=Rome and Environs: An Archaeological Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-7MwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA233|date=10 May 2014|publisher=Univ of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-28209-4|pages=233–}} Domitian later built the Temple of the gens Flavia nearby.{{cite book|author=Andrew Zissos|title=A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MZpPCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA120|date=7 March 2016|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4443-3600-9|pages=120–}}
According to ancient authors, the temple of Quirinus was built and dedicated to Quirinus (the deified form of Romulus) by the consul Lucius Papirius Cursor in 293 BC.{{cite book|author=Duncan Fishwick|title=The Imperial cult in the Latin West 001|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4II_mqxM8s0C&pg=PA58|date=October 1993|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-07179-2|pages=58–}}{{cite book|author=Penelope J. E. Davies|title=Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NrYrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA284|date=30 November 2017|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-09431-4|pages=284–}}
Work was done on the temple in the early imperial period, and literary references are found until the 4th century AD.{{cite book|author=Samuel Ball Platner|title=A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SYqFBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA438|date=21 May 2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-08324-9|pages=438–}}{{cite book|author=Filippo Coarelli|title=Rome and Environs: An Archaeological Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-7MwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA233|date=10 May 2014|publisher=Univ of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-28209-4|pages=233–}}
Fieldwork conducted by Andrea Carandini employed ground penetrating radar on the Quirinal Hill, revealing possible remains of the temple.{{cite book|author=Andrea Carandini|title=Cercando Quirino: traversata sulle onde elettromagnetiche nel suolo del Quirinale|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nE5NGQAACAAJ|year=2007|publisher=G. Einaudi|isbn=978-88-06-19084-2}}
