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The entries on pp322-356 of

Samuel Ball Platner (as completed and revised by Thomas Ashby):
A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
London: Oxford University Press, 1929.

Macellenses: a name applied to those who dwelt near the macellum Liviae, found only in one inscription (CIL VI.31897; BC 1891, 356).

Macellum: see separate page.

Macellum Liviae: see separate page.

Macellum Magnum: see separate page.

Macellum Magnum: see separate page.

Magna Mater, sacellum (?): see separate page.

Mater Deum, aedes: see separate page.

Magna Mater, aedes*: see separate page.

Magna Mater, tholus: see separate page.

Magna Mater (in Vaticano): see separate page.

Malum Punicum, ad: see separate page.

Ad Mammam: see Diaetae Mammaeae.

Manalis Lapis: see separate page.

Mancina Tifata: see Tifata Mancina.

Mansiones Saliorum Palatinorum: apparently shrines in different parts of the city at which the Salii halted in their annual procession, known to us only from one inscription (CIL VI.2158) on the marble facing of the temple of Mars Ultor in the forum of Augustus, which records a restoration of these mansiones in or after 328 A.D. (Jord. I.2.447; DS IV.1018). From this inscription and a reference to a dinner of the Salii in the temple of Mars (Suet. Claud. 33) it is clear that one of these mansiones was in this temple.

Mansuetae: a locality in Region VII (Not. Cur.), otherwise unknown. The name suggests a group of statues representing tamed animals with 'ferae' as a correlative (Eranos 1923, 49; see Hecatostylon.)

Mappa Aurea: mentioned in Not. in Region XIII, and on a slave's collar (CIL XV.7182: ad mappa(m) aurea(m) in Abentino). Whether this was a vicus or a building is uncertain. The name suggests the mappa with which the praetorJJJ gave the signal for the beginning of the games in the circus, and this street or building was probably near or overlooking the carceres of the circus Maximus (HJ 170; BC 1887, 290‑295; Mitt. 1889, 260; 1892, 295; NS 1881, 138; Merlin 321).

Divus Marcus, templum: a temple of Marcus Aurelius which probably stood just west of his column (q.v.), in the same relation to it as the temple of Trajan to his column. It was erected to the deified emperor by the senate (Hist. Aug. Marc. 18; Aur. Vict. Caes. 16; Ep. 16), and is mentioned only once afterwards (Not. Reg. IX; HJ 608; Gilb. III.128).

Marmorata: the modern name for the wharf where marble was loaded, downstream of the west side of the Aventine (see Emporium). A bull of 926 (Reg. Subl. n. 18, p18) mentions an oratorium S. Gimiliani . . . in regione prima . . . in ripa Graeca iuxta marmorata supra fluvium Tiberis, which recurs in the twelfth century (ib. n. 183, p224), but had already disappeared in the sixteenth. It was probably in the southern part of the regio Marmoratae towards the horrea (HCh 253‑254). Until lately numerous blocks of marble were still to be seen there (Jord. I.1.434; Ann. d. Inst. 1870, 105; LR 527; LF 39, 40; HJ 174); but this regio did not correspond with the locality now called Marmorata, which was included in the mediaeval regio horrea, but lay further upstream under the west angle of the Aventine adjacent to the regio schole Grece (HCh c. n. 2; cf. 174, 198, 402, and v. supra, p44).

Mars [in Capitolio]: see separate page.

Mars, aedes [in via Appia]: see separate page.

Martis Lucus: see [Aedes Martis].

Mars, aedes [in circo Flaminio]: see separate page.

Mars, ara: see separate page.

Mars Invictus: see separate page.

Mars, templum [in Castra Praetoria]: see separate page.

Mars Ultor, aedes: see Forum Augustum.

Mars Ultor, templum: see separate page.

Martis Sacrarium: see Regia.

Marsyas: see Statua Marsyae.

Mater Matuta, aedes: see separate page.

Matidia, ara: see separate page.

Matidia, templum: see separate page.

Mausolea Augustorum: see Sepulcrum Mariae Stilichonis.

Mausoleum Augusti: see separate page.

Mausoleum Hadriani: see separate page.

Mefitis: see separate page.

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