Basis Q. Marci Regis: the pedestal of a statue of Q. Marcius Rex, erected on the Capitoline behind the temple of Juppiter, on which a diploma honestae missionis was fastened in 64 A.D. (CIL III p846, No. III).

(p83) Bellona, aedes: see separate page.

Bellona Pulvinensis, aedes: see separate page.

Bellona Rufilia, aedes: see separate page.

(p84) Bellona, sacellum: see separate page.

Bibliotheca Apollinis Palatini:* see separate page.

Bibliotheca Asini Pollionis: see separate page.

Bibliotheca Templi d. Augusti: see separate page.

Bibliotheca Capitolina: see separate page.

Bibliotheca Panthei: see Thermae Alexandrinae.

(p85) Bibliotheca Porticus Octaviae: see separate page.

Bibliotheca Templi Pacis: see Pacis Templum.

Bibliotheca Domus Tiberianae: see separate page.

Bibliotheca Ulpia: see Forum Traiani.

Bona Dea: a shrine of Bona Dea, which stood a little north of the present church of S. Cecilia in Trastevere, known only from certain inscriptions found in the neighbourhood. One (CIL VI.65) records the restoration of a sacrum Bonae Deae by M. Vettius Bolanus, consul c. 69 A.D. (cf. Balineum Bolani); another (67) the erection of a simulacrum in tutelam insulae Bolani, and the gift of an aedes to Bona Dea restituta or restitutrix, by a certain Cladus who also made another present of some kind to the goddess (CIL VI.66). Nothing further is known of this shrine (cf. CIL VI.75; BC 1905, 349; NS 1905, 270; HJ 639‑640; RE III.690; Gilb. II.177; III.445).

Bona Dea Subsaxana: see separate page.

p86 Bonus Eventus, templum: a temple of Bonus Eventus to which there is but one reference in literature (Amm. Marcell. XXIX.6.19) where it is said that the Porticus Boni Eventus (q.v.) was built near it in 374 A.D. The temple probably stood just west of the thermae Agrippae, and some ancient peperino walls found on the site of the church of S. Maria in Monterone may belong to it (ASRSP 1887, 471; BC 1878, 212‑213; 1891, 224‑227; 1914, 387‑388). The date of erection of this temple is unknown, but it may have been one of the buildings of Agrippa (HJ 581; RE III.715; Rosch. I.795‑797).

Bucinum: A name found in the Regionary Catalogue in Region IV, and once in the Digest (14.4.6.16). It occurs in the Catalogue among monuments that were probably near the lower end of the Subura, and it was probably a conch shell or horn, represented in monumental form, that gave its name to the locality (Mitt. 1907, 429‑433; BPW 1914, 382).

Busta Gallica: see separate page.

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Samuel Ball Platner (as completed and revised by Thomas Ashby):
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London: Oxford University Press, 1929.