ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

swaddling clothes, Torelli suggests that this was a temple to Mater Matuta. 102I find thisan acceptable attribution since this goddess has clear Latin connections: she was alsovenerated in Satricum, Rome, and the grove outside of Pisaurum.Three of Torelli's other suggestions for deities worshipped in the northern part ofthe South sanctuary are not as well grounded in the archaeological evidence. Torelliasserts that the round structure to the east of the Temple of Mater Matuta is a shrine ofHercules based only on its shape. 104Greco, D'Ambrosio, and Theodorescu offer themore likely explanation that it was a bench for one of the restructurings of the gardenspace. 105Torelli uses the placement of the Mater Matuta temple and nearby Asculapiusshrine to draw a comparison to the Roman temples between the Forum Holitorium, TiberIsland, and Forum Boarium. 106Based on this comparison and the benches found in anearby temple, Torelli suggests that this temple was dedicated to Magna Mater and itsneighbor to Victoria, by association and comparison to Rome. 107Greco, D'Ambrosio,and Theodorescu also attribute the temple with benches to Magna Mater, but cautiouslyremain silent on the other. 108Furthermore, they are silent on the attribution of theamphiprostyle temple, which Torelli argues is also to Hercules based on coinagedepicting the hero-god, comparison of the temple with that of Hercules Invictus in Rome,102 Torelli (1999b), p. 62. See Crawford (2006) p.68 n. 17 for a critique of Torelli. Crawford notes thatTorelli does not prove his argument against Greco that the statues of children are colonial not Lucanian. Allthe placement proves is that the statues are earlier than the second reconstruction of the area around the socalledItalic Temple. Greco, D'Ambrosio, and Theodorescu (1996), pp. 68-70 remain silent on theattribution.103 CIL XI 6301 (Pesaro). Torelli (1999b), p. 62. Coarelli (1988), p. 205 f.104 Torelli (1999b), pp. 62-63; (1999a), p. 61.105 Greco, D'Ambrosio, and Theodorescu (1996), pp. 69-70.106 Torelli (1999b), pp. 62-63. Torelli justifies this with reference to Aulus Gellius (NA XVI.13.9).107 Torelli (1999b), p. 64; (1999a), pp. 68-70.108 Greco, D'Ambrosio, and Theodorescu (1996), p. 74.175