Temple of Jupiter Apenninus

[9] The Statio ad Hensem, mentioned by all the ancient Itineraria (Antonini, Gaditanum, Burdigalense),[10] lay 133 miles from Rome along the Via Flaminia, and has been identified with the modern village of Scheggia.

It is possible that Ad Hensem belonged to the city's territory, a fact confirmed by Pliny the Younger, who writes in his Naturalis historia that the inhabitants of Iguvium used to sell along the Via Flaminia a certain medicinal herb.

[15] From a passage by Claudian mentioned below, it is probable that the temple lay at the top of the slope, in correspondence with the modern ANAS' Casa Cantoniera (the service house of the road workers).

[22] Another author of the Historia Augusta, Trebellius Pollio, tells how emperor Claudius Gothicus (r. 268–270) had consulted the oracle "in the Apennines" three times, for himself, for his descendants and for his brother Quintillus.

The shrine was still standing at the beginning of the 5th century: the poet Claudian, describing Honorius' (r. 393–423) journey from Ravenna to Rome in 404,[24][25] reports how after the Furlo gorge the emperor [3] ...exuperans delubra Iovis saxoque minantes / Appenninigenis cultas pastoribus aras...overcomes the sanctuary of Jupiter and the altars overhung by the rock, venerated by the shepherds of the Apennines At the beginning of the eighteenth century, during works to improve the via Flaminia ordered by Pope Clement XI (r. 1700–1721), ruins of ancient buildings and an inscription on a memorial cippus were found in the locality of Piaggia dei Bagni,[16] between what is now Scheggia and Pontericciòli di Cantiano.

[13] The cippus, dating back to the first century AD and now kept in the Museo lapidario maffeiano [it] in Verona, bears the following dedication by a couple of liberti ("freedmen") of Greek origin to Jupiter Apenninus.

[13][26][27] IOVI APENINO - T. VIVIVS CARMOGENES (ET) SVLPICIA EV(PHRO)SINE CONIVX - V.S.D.D.Titus Vivius Carmogenes and his spouse Sulpicia Euphrosine, having fulfilled their vow, dedicated to Jupiter Apenninus Another cippus, found at the beginning of the 18th century in the same place where the previous epigraph was found and now in the Museo di antichità [it] in Turin, was dedicated to Jupiter Optimus Maximus by a Roman woman:[6][28]I.O.M.S.

[30] More recent excavations in the Piaggia dei Bagni have brought to light tanks from the Roman era, which collected water from the local springs, hypothetically connected to the sanctuary.

The Ponte a botte ("Barrel bridge") along the Via Flaminia near Scheggia in a 1837 woodcut . It is presumed that the temple was located on the mountain above the southern (right) part of the bridge
The Iguvine Tablets were probably on display in the temple of Iupiter