<p>Temple of Luna on the *Aventine (cf. Ov., <i>Fast</i>. 884), without identified remains. Its site depends on that of the Temple of *Ceres, whose location, though not known with certainty, can reasonably be narrowed to the lower slope of the Aventine’s N tip, just above the head of the *Circus Maximus. Luna’s temple stood in the immediate vicinity of Ceres’ (Richardson; Ziolkowski; Coarelli; Andreussi), since its doors are reported to have been dislodged by a storm in 182 B.C. and hurled into the rear wall of the Temple of Ceres (Livy 40.2.2); further, both temples were hit by lightning — presumably the same bolt — on the same day in 84 B.C. (App., <i>B Civ</i>. 1.78). Assuming the temple’s existence during the Augustan period (Tac., <i>Ann.</i> 15.41; yet with <i>Lucina</i>, instead of <i>Luna</i>, as an alternative: Ziolkowski, 99), our map groups its index number together with those for the Temple of Ceres and the adjacent Temple of *Flora. The importance of a cult to Luna and the proximity of her temple to those of Ceres and Flora may appear less “obscure” (Ziolkowski, 99) when one takes into account the potentially destructive effect on crops and vegetation that the full moon was considered to have (Pliny, <i>NH</i> 18.286-92).</p>