Temple of Jupiter Stator, temple ruins in Campus Martius, Rome, Italy

The Temple of Jupiter Stator was a hexastyle peripteral temple in the southern Campus Martius, built of marble by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus and designed by Hermodorus of Salamis. It stood beside the Temple of Juno Regina within the Porticus Metelli, later rebuilt as the Porticus Octaviae. Its site lies under the church of Santa Maria in Campitelli.

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus commissioned the temple after his triumph of 146 BC, and it was built the following year to a design by Hermodorus of Salamis. Velleius calls it the first temple in Rome built entirely of marble. Augustus rebuilt it with the Temple of Juno Regina inside the Porticus Octaviae, and the Great Fire of 64 AD destroyed it completely.

The name Stator, "the one who stops," links this temple to a different shrine of Jupiter Stator in the Forum Romanum, but this building stood in the southern Campus Martius. Pliny the Elder told that lizard and frog carvings led to the tale of the Spartan architects Saurus and Batrachus, whose decorations were said to have been swapped, so the statues of Jupiter and Juno ended up in the wrong cellae.

The temple stood in the southern Campus Martius, and its site is now occupied by the church of Santa Maria in Campitelli; the Via della Tribuna di Campitelli separates it from the former site of the Temple of Juno Regina to the west. Nothing of the temple survives above ground, so look for the church rather than ruins.

The temple's alternative names, Aedes Iovis Metellina and Aedes Metelli, come from its builder Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, who commissioned it after his triumph of 146 BC. Pliny the Elder linked the architects Saurus and Batrachus to lizard and frog decorations, a tale now doubted.