Round monument dedicated by the Emperor Vespasiano in the Hall of the Machines of the Capitoline Museums in the former Giovanni Montemartini Thermoelectric Centre in Rome Italy. The monument stood in the neighborhood of the Temple of Apollo Sosiano, which remains are still visible today near the Theatre of Marcellus, and dates from 69/79 B.C. The circular monument can be tentatively identified as a basin of purifying water .The statue of Jupiter origins from the temple of Juptiter Statore that stood although in the neighborhood of the Temple of Apollo Sosiano. The second part of the spacious of the Machines is dedicated to the remains of a number of religious and cult monuments, which were erected in the vicinity of the Capitoline Hill, the religious heart of the ancient Rome.
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