* Capitolium, the temple for the Capitoline Triad in many cities of the Roman Empire

These vows are to the primary Roman gods-Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva ( the Capitoline Triad )- but other shipwrecked sailors are said to make offerings to Isis.

Minerva was part of a holy triad with Tinia and Uni, equivalent to the Roman Capitoline Triad of Jupiter-Juno-Minerva.

Minerva was worshipped on the Capitoline Hill as one of the Capitoline Triad along with Jupiter and Juno, at the Temple of Minerva Medica, and at the " Delubrum Minervae " a temple founded around 50 BC by Pompey on the site now occupied by the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva facing the present-day Piazza della Minerva.

Some authors consider it possible that the cult of the Capitoline Triad ( Jove, Minerva, Juno ) could have been celebrated here well before it became associated with the Capitoline Hill.

He was the chief deity of the early Capitoline Triad with Mars and Quirinus.

In the later Capitoline Triad, he was the central guardian of the state with Juno and Minerva.

Jupiter was worshiped there as an individual deity, and with Juno and Minerva as part of the Capitoline Triad.

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The Aventine Triad has been described as parallel to the Capitoline Triad of Jupiter, Mars and Quirinus on the Capitoline Hill, within the city's sacred boundary ( pomerium ): and as its " copy and antithesis ".

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He soon became an important god of the Roman state, being included in the earliest precursor of the Capitoline Triad, along with Mars ( then an agriculture god ) and Jupiter.

In later times, however, Quirinus became far less important, losing his place to the later, more widely known Capitoline Triad ( Juno and Minerva took his and Mars ' place ).

Menrva was part of a holy triad with Tinia and Uni, later reflected in the Roman Capitoline Triad of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.

During the Republican period a temple was built dedicated to the Capitoline Triad: Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.

The summit was the site of a temple for the Capitoline Triad, started by Rome's fifth king, Tarquinius Priscus ( r. 616-579 BC ), and completed by the seventh and last king, Tarquinius Superbus ( 535 – 496 BC ).

The Capitoline Triad of Juno, Jupiter, and Minerva were also tutelaries of Rome.

The Capitoline Triad of Minerva, Jupiter, and Juno

* 13 ( Ides ): anniversary of the Temple to Jupiter Optimus Maximus ; an Epulum Iovis ; an epulum to the Capitoline Triad

In the confusion, the leading men of the state gathered at Sabinus ' house, proclaiming Vespasian as Emperor, but the multitude dispersed when Vitellian cohorts clashed with the armed escort of Sabinus, who was forced to retreat to the Capitoline Hill.

The most important building Domitian restored was the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill, said to have been covered with a gilded roof.

With an imposing force he returned to the Roman Forum, and at the foot of the Capitoline Hill encountered Galba, who, alarmed by rather vague rumors of treachery, was making his way through a dense crowd of wandering citizens towards the barracks of the guard.

The original " palaces " on the Palatine Hill were the seat of the imperial power while the " capitol " on the Capitoline Hill was the religious nucleus of Rome.

On his death, the bust of Urban that lay beside the Palace of the Conservators on the Capitoline Hill was rapidly destroyed by an enraged crowd, and only a quick-thinking priest saved the sculpture of Urban belonging to the Jesuits from a similar fate.

The triumphal destination was the temple of Jupiter Capitolinis ( Capitoline Jupiter ), to whom the victor offered his laurel crown and two perfect white bulls as a thanks-offering.

This was extended with the inclusion of the Capitoline Hill and Tiber Island when Rome became an oppidum, or fortified town.

Many of his functions were focused on the Capitoline (" Capitol Hill "), where the citadel was located.

His house on the Capitoline was razed, and it was decreed that no patrician should ever be allowed to live there.

The location of his two temples in Rome — near those of Jupiter ( one on the Capitoline Hill, in the low between the arx and the Capitolium, between the two groves where the asylum founded by Romulus stood, the other on the Tiber Island near that of Iuppiter Iurarius, later also known as temple of Aesculapius )— may be significant in this respect, along with the fact that he is considered the father of Apollo ( perhaps because he was depicted carrying arrows ).

On 15 October 184 at the Capitoline Games, a Cynic philosopher publicly denounced Perennis before Commodus, who was watching, but was immediately put to death.

The descriptions of Constantine's entry into Rome omit mention of him ending his procession at the temple of Capitoline Jupiter, where sacrifice was usually offered.

It was inspired by the Marcus Aurelius equestrian sculpture at the Capitoline Hill in Rome.

He was awarded first prize for a design that would have been situated at the base of Mount Fuji ; the hall he conceived was a fusion of Shinto shrine architecture and the plaza on Capitoline Hill in Rome.

The decision to build it was reached in 1878, shortly after the king's death that year ; the site on the Capitoline Hill was chosen in 1882 ; and the design of 28 year-old Giuseppe Sacconi was selected in 1884.

While some scholars maintain she was known as such at Rome since the most ancient times as paredra of Jupiter in the Capitoline Triad others think she is a new acquisition introduced to Rome after her evocatio from Veii.

The Games of 17 BC also introduced day-time sacrifices to Roman deities on the Capitoline and Palatine hills.

There is a surviving portrait of Agrippina the Elder in the Capitoline Museums in Rome.

Statue of Pan, Capitoline Museum, Rome

* Capitoline Hill in Rome ( from which the word capitol derives )

Domitian, Capitoline Museums, Rome

The Judgement of Paris, Capodimonte porcelain, Capitoline Museums, Rome

While looting the city, Sulla seized some of the incomplete columns and transported them back to Rome, where they were re-used in the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill.

1510, Capitoline Museums, Rome

The Dying Gaul, a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE Capitoline Museums, Rome

* the Capitoline Museums, the oldest public collection of art in the world, began in 1471 when Pope Sixtus IV donated a group of important ancient sculptures to the people of Rome.

When Hieron of Syracuse presented a golden statuette of the goddess to Rome, the Senate had it placed in the temple of Capitoline Jupiter among the greatest ( and most sacred ) deities.

On 22 October 1867, the revolutionaries inside Rome seized control of the Capitoline Hill and of Piazza Colonna.

The city expands its boundaries to accommodate them ; five of the seven hills of Rome are settled: the Capitoline Hill, the Aventine Hill, the Caelian Hill, the Quirinal Hill, and the Palatine Hill.

The Sabine king Titus Tatius marches on Rome to assault its Capitoline citadel.

Judgement of Paris, porcelain, Capitoline Museums, Rome

They capture the entire city of Rome except for the Capitoline Hill, which is successfully held against them.

A copy of the Capitoline wolf is preserved in the Capitoline Museum and was a gift that Rome gave to the city in 1974 during the events of the bimillennial anniversary of the aqueduct.

Funerary relief of an Archigallus from Lavinium, mid-2nd century AD, Capitoline Museums, Rome.