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MANES . FECIT . (C.I.L. xv. 7249). See also:brick-facing, probably of the See also:time of See also:Nero; all had been richly decorated with See also:marble linings and mosaics. The See also:line of the See also:street was parallel to that of the later See also:Aurelian See also:wall, which at this See also:part was built against the back of this See also:row of houses. At the same time, behind the line of houses were uncovered See also:fine See also:peperino and tufa piers of the See also:aqueduct rebuilt by See also:Augustus, one See also:arch of which forms the Porta S. Lorenzo. These interesting remains have all been completely destroyed. A fine See also:house of the end of the 1st See also:century A.D., with richly decorated walls, was exposed in See also:June 1884 against the slope of the Quirinal, near the Palazzo See also:Colonna; it was immediately destroyed to make See also:room for new buildings. The praetorian See also:camp was first made permanent and surrounded with a strong wall by the See also:emperor Tiberius (See also:Suet. Tib. 37). Owing See also:Praetor to the camp being included in the line of the Aurelian lancamp. wall, a See also:great part of it still exists; it is a very interesting specimen of See also:early imperial brick-facing. The wall is only I2 to 14 ft. high, and has thinly scattered battlements, at intervals of 20 ft. The See also:north-See also:east See also:gate (Porta Principalis Dextra) is well preserved ; it had a See also:tower on each See also:side, now greatly reduced in height, in which are small windows with arched heads moulded in one slab of terra-See also:cotta. The brick-facing is very neat and See also:regular,—the bricks being about 1 z in. thick, with i-in. See also:joints. On the inside of • the wall are rows of small rooms for the See also:guards. Part of the Porta Praetoria also, remains. This camp was dismantled by See also:Constantine, who removed its inner walls; the See also:outer ones were See also:left because they formed part of the Aurelian See also:circuit. The See also:present wall is nearly three times the height of the See also:original camp wall. The upper part was added when Aurelian included it in his See also:general circuit wall See also:round See also:Rome. The See also:superior neatness and beauty of Tiberius's brick-facing make it easy to distinguish where his See also:work ,ends and that of the later emperors begins. Owing to the addition of the later wall it requires some care to trace the rows of battlements which belong to the camp. The See also:Pantheon is the most perfect among existing classical buildings in Rome. The inscription on the See also:frieze of the See also:portico (M Pantheon. See also:AGRIPPA . L F See also:COS . TERTIVM . FECIT) refers to a build- See also:ing erected by Agrippa in 27 B.C., consecrated to the divinities of the See also:Julian house (See also:Mars, See also:Venus, etc.) under the name Pantheum (" all-See also:holy "); cf, Dio See also:Cass. liii. 27; Plin. H.N. See also:xxxvi. 43. It was sometimes used as the See also:meeting-See also:place of the Fratres Arvales before they began to meet in the See also:temple of See also:Concord (C.I.L. v. 2041). See also:Pliny mentions the See also:sculpture by the Athenian See also:Diogenes which adorned it, and its capitals and See also:dome covering of Syracusan See also:bronze (xxxiv. 7). It was See also:long supposed that the present rotunda was the Pantheon of Agrippa; but this was destroyed in the great See also:fire of A.D. 8o (Oros. 7, 12; Hieron. Abr. 2127);. and See also:recent investigations have shown that the rotunda is a work of See also:Hadrian's reign, bricks of that See also:period having been found in all parts of the See also:building. Excavations have made it probable that the site of the rotunda was previously occupied by an open piazza, whose See also:pavement of coloured See also:marbles has been discovered beneath the flooring, and that Agrippa's Pantheon covered the present piazza and faced southward. The present portico has been reconstructed; it is probable that Agrippa's portico had ten columns in the front. The See also:ceiling of the portico too was of bronze, supported by hollow bronze girders,l which remained till See also:Urban VIII. melted them to make See also:cannon for S. Angelo; the bronze weighed 450,000 lb. The bronze tiles of the dome were stolen long before by See also:Constans II., in 663, but on their way to See also:Constantinople they were seized by the See also:Saracens. The portico has eight columns on the front and three on the sides, all See also:granite monoliths except the restored ones on the east side,—sixteen in all. The capitals are Corinthian, of See also: 1021).
2 On the See also:architrave is cut an inscription recording the restoration of the Pantheon by See also:Severus in 202.alteration.° About 6o8 the Pantheon was given by Pliocas to See also:Boniface IV., who consecrated it as the See also: Adjoining this were temples to See also:Isis and See also:Serapis, a cult which became very popular in Rome in the time of Hadrian; large quantities of sculpture, Egypto-See also:Roman in See also:style, have been found on this site at many different times.° Several of the See also:barracks (excubitoria) of the various cohorts of the vigiles or firemen have been discovered in various parts of Rome. That of the first See also:cohort (Plan, No. 29) is buried under the Fhemsn's Palazzo Savorelli; that of the second (Plan, No. 30) was harm;u . on the Esquiline, near the so-called temple of Minerva Medica ; that of the third (Plan, No. 31) was near the baths of See also:Diocletian. The most perfect is that of the seventh cohort (Plan, No. 34), near S. Crisogono in Trastevere, a handsome house of the 2nd century, decorated with See also:mosaic floors, wall-paintings, &c.° The excavations made in exposing the See also:ancient church of S. Clemente brought to See also:light interesting remains of different periods; drawings are given by Mullooly, St See also:Clement and his See also:Basilica (1869), and De See also:Rossi, See also:Bull. Arch. Grist. (1863),. 28. Some remains exist of the See also:Golden House of Nero, which, including its parks, lakes, &c., covered an incredibly large space of ground, extending from the See also:Palatine, over the See also:Velia and the site oomden of the temple of Venus and Rome, to the Esquiline, filling noose of the great valley between the Caelian and the Esquiline Nero. where the Colosseum stands, and reaching far over the Esquiline to the great See also:reservoir now called the Sette See also:Sale." No other extravagances or cruelties of Nero appear to have offended the Roman See also:people so much as the erection of this enormous See also:palace, which must have blocked up many important roads and occupied the site of a whole populqus See also:quarter. It was partly to make restitution for this enormous See also:theft of See also:land that See also:Vespasian and See also:Titus destroyed the Golden House and built the Colosseum and Thermae of Titus on part of its site. Adjoining the baths of Titus were those built on a much larger See also:scale by See also:Trajan. Under the substructions of these extensive remains of the Golden House still exist;7 and at one point, at a lower level still, pavements and See also:foundations remain of one of the numerous houses destroyed by Nero to clear the site. The great bronze See also:colossus of Nero, 120 ft. high (Suet. Nero, 31), which stood in one of the porticus of the Golden House, was moved by Vespasian, with See also:head and attributes altered to those of See also:Apollo (Helios), on to the Velia; and it was moved again by Hadrian, when the temple of Rome was built, on to the See also:base which still exists near the Colosseum. Several coins show this colossus by the side of the Colosseum. Under the Palazzo See also:Doria, the church of S. Maria in Via Lata, and other neighbouring buildings extensive remains exist of a great porticus, with long rows of travertine piers; this Saepta building is designated on fragments of the marble plan Jada. with the words SAEPT . . . LIA. This must be the Saepta Julia, begun by See also:Julius See also:Caesar, and completed by Agrippa in 27 B.c., as the voting place for the See also:Comitia Centuriata, divided into compartments, one for each century. The building contained rostra, and was also used for gladiatorial shows. Under the later See also:empire it became a See also:bazaar and resort of slave-dealers. That curiously planned building on the Esquiline, in the new Piazza Vit. Emmanuele, where the so-called trophies of See also:Marius once were placed (see Du Perac, Vestigj, pl. 27), is one of the numerous castella or reservoirs from which the See also:water of the various aqueducts was distributed in the quarters they were meant to See also:supply, and may perhaps be identified with the See also:Nymphaeum Alexandri built ° The bronze See also:door is not in its present See also:form See also:antique, having been recast by See also:order of See also:Pius IV. t The plan of the whole See also:group, including the Pantheon, is given by See also:Palladio (op. cit.). The recent discoveries are given by Lanciani, Not. d. Scavi (1882), p. 357, with a valuable plan. See also Geymuller, Documents inedits sur See also:les Thermes d'Agrippa (See also:Lausanne, 1883) ; Beltrami and Armanini, Il Panteon (1898) ; Durm, Baukunst der Romer, ed. 2, pp. 550 ff. ; Rivoira, Rivista di See also:Roma (291o), p. 412. ° See Lanciani in Bull. See also:Comm. Arch. Rom. (1883), and Marucchi, ibid. (1896) ; See also:Fea, Miscell. ccliv. 112. Part of the Serapeum is shown on fragments of the marble plan, which have been pieced together by Huelsen (See also:Jordan, Topographie der Stadt Rom. i. 3, pl. X.).
° See See also:Visconti, La stazione della Coorte VII. de' Vigils (1867).
7 See De Romanis, Le antiche camere esquiline (1822). It should be noted that the paintings said to have belonged to, the baths of Titus really decorated the Golden House, over which the baths of Titus and Trajan were built.
by Severus See also: GERM . PER . CHREZ . See also:LIB . * Ca .i Places of Amusement. The See also:Circus See also:Maximus (see CIRCUS) occupied the Vallis Murcia2 between the Palatine and the Aventine. Its first rows of seats, amuses. which were of See also:wood, are said to have been made under the' Tarquins (Liv. i. 26, 35; Dionys. iii. 68). Permanent carceres were set up in 329 B.C. and restored in 174 B.C. (Liv. viii. 20, xli. 27). In the reign of Julius Caesar it was rebuilt with (for the first time) lower seats of stone (Plin. H.N. xxxvi. 102), the upper being still of wood (Suet. Caes. 39) ; See also:Dionysius (iii. 68) describes it as it was after this rebuilding. It was further ornamented with marble by Augustus, See also:Claudius and other emperors. The wooden part was burnt in the great fire of Nero, and again under Domitian; it was considerably enlarged by Trajan, and lastly it was restored by Constantine. In its later See also:state it had a marble See also:facade with three See also:external tiers of arches with engaged columns, and (inside) sloping tiers of marble seats, supported on concrete raking vaults (Plan. Paneg. 51). A great part of these vaults existed in the 16th century, and is shown by Du Perac. It is said by Pliny (H.N. xxxvi. See also:Io2)—if the See also:text be not corrupt—to have held 250,000 spectators, while the Regionary Catalogues give the number of seats as 485,000; but Huelsen has shown (Bull. Comm. Arch., 1894, 421 ff.) that the figures are much exaggerated and must, moreover, be interpreted, not of the number of spectators, but of the length of the tiers expressed in feet. The end with the carceres was near the church of S. Maria in Cosmedin.' Some of its sub-structures, with remains of very early tufa structures on the Palatine side, still exist below the church of S. Anastasia (see Plan of Palatine). The See also:obelisk now in the Piazza del Popolo was set on the See also:spina by Augustus, and that now in the Lateran piazza by See also:Constantius II. The Circus See also:Flaminius in the Campus See also:Martius was built in 221 B.C. by the C. Flaminius See also:Nepos who was killed at the See also:Trasimene See also:Lake in 217 B.C.; remains of the structure existed until the 16th century, when they were destroyed to build the Palazzo Mattei. In the See also:middle ages its long open space was used as a rope-walk, hence the name of the church called S. Caterina dei Funari, which occupies part of its site.' The circus of Caligula and Nero was at the See also:foot of the Vatican See also: 5) ; it was perhaps restored by Trajan, for the remains of a naumachia built of See also:opus reticulatum mixed with brick have been discovered near the See also:mausoleum of Hadrian. The first stone See also:theatre in Rome was that built by Pompey in 55—52 B.C. (see THEATRE: Roman); it contained a temple to Venus Theatres. Victrix, and in front of it was a great porticus, called Hecatostylum from its See also:hundred columns. This is shown on the marble plan' Considerable remains of the foundations exist between the Piazza dei Satiri, which occupies the site of the i See Bruzza, in See also:Ann. Inst. (187o), and See also:Lenormant, Trophees de Marius, See also:Blois (1842). This once magnificent building, with the marble trophies in their place, is shown with much minuteness on a bronze medallion of Severus Alexander (see Froehner, Medallions de t empire, See also:Paris, 1878, p. 169). 2 So called from a, prehistoric See also:altar to the Dea See also:Murcia (Venus) ; See also:Varro, L.L. v. 154. 3 Part of it is shown on a fragment of the marble plan (see Jordan, F. U.R.) ; it is represented on a bronze medallion of See also:Gordian III., with an obelisk on the spina and three metae at each end; in front are See also:groups of wrestlers and boxers (see Graeber, Rom. Med. pl. xli., See also:London, 1874). ' The remains extant in the 16th century were described by Ligorio, Libro delle Antichita (1553), Q. 17. ' See his Trasporiazione dell' Obelisco Vat. (1590). 6 Nibby, Circo di Caracalla (1825) ; See also:Canina, Edifizj di Roma, iv. pls. 194–96. 'Thu. Porn!). 52 ; See also:Dion Cass. xxxix. 38; Tac. Ann. xiv. 20.scena, and the Via de' Giubbonari and Via del Paradiso. Adjoining this was the porticus Pompeictna, which contained the See also:curia of Pompey, where Caesar was murdered, after which it was walled up. The See also:colossal statue, popularly supposed to be that of Pompey, at the feet of which Caesar died,' now in the Palazzo Spada, was found in 1553 near the theatre. This theatre was restored by Augustus (Mon. Anc. 4, 9) ; in the reign of Tiberius it was burnt, and its rebuilding was completed by Caligula. The seen, was again burnt in A.D. 8o, and restored by Titus. According to Pliny (H.N. xxxvi. 115), it held 40,000 spectators; the Regionary Catalogues give the number 17,580. Huelsen estimates its capacity at 9000–.10,0o0 spectators. In 1864 the colossal gilt bronze statue of See also:Hercules, now in the Vatican, was found near the site of the theatre of Pompey, carefully concealed underground. The theatre of See also:Marcellus is much more perfect; See also:complete foundations of the cunei exist under the Palazzo Savelli, and. part of the external See also:arcade is well preserved. This is built of travertine in two orders, Tuscan and Ionic, with delicate details, very superior to those of the Colosseum, the arcade of which is very similar to this in general See also:design. This theatre was begun by J. Caesar, and finished by Augustus in 13 B.C., who dedicated it in the name of his See also:nephew Marcellus.' It was restored by Vespasian (Suet. Vesp. 19). Foundations also of the theatre dedicated by See also:Cornelius See also:Balbus in 13 B.C. (Suet. Aug. 29; Dio Cass. See also:list. 25) exist under the See also:Monte dei See also:Cenci; and in the Via dei Calderari there is a small portion of the external arcade of a porticus (Plan, No. 42) ; the lower storey has travertine arches with engaged columns, and the upper has brick-faced pilasters. This has been sup-posed to be the Crypta See also:Balbi mentioned in the Regionary Catalogues, but is more probably the Porticus Minucia; built in I to B.C. An interesting See also:account of the temporary theatre of M. See also:Aemilius See also:Scaurus, erected in 58 B.C., is given by Pliny (H.N. xxxvi. 5, 113). The same writer mentions an almost incredible building, which consisted of two wooden theatres made to revolve on pivots, so that the two together made an See also:amphitheatre; this was erected by C. See also:Curio ih 50 B.C. (H.N. xxxvi. 116). The first stone amphitheatre in Rome was that built by Statilius See also:Taurus in the reign of Augustus. (For the Colosseum and Amphlthe Amphitheatrum Castrense, see AMPHITHEATRE; for theatres. the Baths, see that See also:article.) Arches, Columns, Tombs and See also:Bridges. The earliest triumphal arches were the two erected by L. Stertinius (196 B.c.) in the See also:Forum Boarium and in the Circus Maximus, out of spoils gained in See also:Spain.10 In the later years of the Arches. empire there were nearly See also:forty in Rome. The arch of Titus and Vespasian on the Summa Sacra Via was 'erected by Domitian to commemorate the See also:conquest of See also:Judaea by Titus in his See also:father's reign. Reliefs inside the arch represent the triumphal procession—Titus in a See also:chariot, and on the other side soldiers bearing the golden See also:candlestick, trumpets and table of See also:prothesis, taken from the Jewish temple. The central part only of this See also:monument is original; the sides were restored in 1823 " Another arch in honour of Titus had previously been built (A.D. 8o) in the Circus Maximus; its inscription is given in the See also:Einsiedeln MS. (C.I.L. vi. 944). A See also:plain travertine arch near the supposed palace of See also:Commodus on the Caelian is inscribed with the names of the See also:Consul Publius Cornelius See also:Dolabella (A.D. 10) and of the See also:flamen See also:martialis, C. See also:Junius Silanus. It may have originally been used to carry the Aqua Marcia; in later times the Aqua Claudia passed over it. The so-called arch of See also:Drusus by the Porta Appia also carries the spscus of an aqueduct—that built by Caracalla to supply hisgreat thermae. Its composite capitals show, however, that it is later than the time of Drusus, and it was very possibly the work of Trajan. Adjoining the church of S. Giorgio in Velabro a rich though coarsely decorated marble gateway with See also:flat See also:lintel still exists—built, as its inscription records, in honour of Severus and his sons by the argentarii (bankers and silversmiths) and other merchants of the Forum Boarium in 204. It formed an entrance from the Forum Boarium into the Velabrum. The figure of See also:Geta in the reliefs and his name have been erased by Caracalla; the sculpture is poor both in design and See also:execution (see Bull. Inst., 1867, p. 217, and 1871, p. 233). Close by is a quadruple arch, set at the intersection of two roads, such as was called by the 8 See Fea, Rom. See also:Ant. lxviii. 57, for an account of its See also:discovery. 9 Suet. Aug. 29. See Mon. Anc. 4, 22: " Theatrvm ad aedem. Apollinis . in . See also:solo . magna . ex . parte a . [privatis .] empto . feci . qvod . svb . nomine . M . Marcelli . generi . [me]i . esset." The temple of Apollo here named was one of the most ancient and highly venerated in Rome; it was dedicated to the Delphic Apollo in 431 B.C. by Cn. Julius (Liv. iv. 25) ; meetings of the See also:Senate were held in it; and it contained many fine See also:works of See also:art—an ancient See also:cedar-wood statue of Apollo (Plin. H.N. xiii. II) and the celebrated statues of the slaughter of the Niobids by See also:Praxiteles or See also:Scopas (Plin. H.N. xxxvi. 28), of which many ancient copies exist. 10 Liv. xxxiii. 27. " This arch is the earliest known example of the so-called Composite order, a modification of Corinthian in which the capitals combine Ionic volutes with Corinthian See also:acanthus leaves; in other respects it follows the Corinthian order. See also:Romans an arch of See also:Janus Quadrifrons. Though partly built of earlier fragments, it is See also:late in style, and may be the Arcus Constantini mentioned in the XIth region. The finest existing arch is that by the Colosseum erected by Constantine. It owes, however, little of its beauty to that artistically degraded period. Not only most of its reliefs but its whole design and many of its architectural features were stolen from an earlier arch erected by Trajan as an entrance to his forum (see above). The arch of Claudius, built in 43 to commemorate his supposed victories in See also:Britain, stood across the Via Lata (modern Corso) in the Piazza Sciarra. Its exact position is shown in Bull. Comm. Arch. Rom., 1878, pl. iv. Its remains were removed in the middle of the 16th century,' and nothing now is left but See also:half its inscription, preserved in the See also:garden of the See also:Barberini palace. It is shown on both aurei and denarii of Claudius, with an See also:attic inscribed DE BRITANNIS, and surmounted by a See also:quadriga and trophies. A little to the N. of the Piazza Colonna was an arch popularly called the Arco di Portogallo, destroyed in 1665, whose reliefs are now in the Palazzo dei Conservatori. They appear to date from the reign of Hadrian, but may have been used at a later time to decorate this arch. An arch also stood opposite S. Maria in Via Lata until 1498, which was probably erected by Diocletian in A.D. 303. The central part of the once triple arch of See also:Gallienus still exists on the Esquiline; it took the place of the ancient Porta Esquilina of the Servian wall. It is built of travertine, is See also:simple in design, with coarse details, and has an inscription on its attic. The two side arches and pediment over the centre existed in the 16th century, and are shown in the Mantuan oil-See also:painting Rome,' and in several antiquarian works of the 16th century. The inscription (CLL. vi. 1106) records that it was erected in honour of Gallienus and his wife Salonina by Aurelius See also:Victor.' ' The See also:column of See also:Antoninus Pius was a monolith of red granite, erected after his See also:death by his adopted sons M. Aurelius and L. Columns. Verus. One fragment of it is preserved in the Vatican with an interesting quarry incription, recording that it was cut in the ninth See also:year of Trajan's reign, under the supervision of Dioscurus and the architect See also:Aristides. The See also:rest of its fragments were used by Pius VI. to repair the obelisk of Monte Citorio, set up by Augustus in the Campus Martius as the See also:gnomon of a sundial (Plin. H.N. xxxvi. 72). The marble See also:pedestal of the Antonine column is now in the Vatican; it has reliefs representing the See also:apotheosis of See also:Faustina and Antoninus Pius, and the decursio equitum which formed part of the funeral ceremony. This and the column of M. Aurelius were both surmounted by colossal portrait statues of gilt bronze. The column of M. Aurelius is very similar in See also:size and design to that of Trajan. Its See also:spiral reliefs represent victories in See also:Germany from 171-175, arranged in twenty tiers. Like the column of Trajan, it is exactly See also:ioo Roman ft. high, without the pedestal. The pedestal was originally much higher than at present, but is now partly buried; it is shown by Gamucci, Du Perac and other 16th-century writers. This column stood in front of a temple to M. Aurelius, and within a great peribolus, forming a forum similar to that of Trajan, though much smaller; the remains of this temple, amongst other buildings, probably form the See also:elevation now called Monte Citorio.' For the catacombs, see CATACOMBS; for obelisks, see OBELISK and See also:EGYPT. The prehistoric cemeteries of Rome are described above (Prehistoric Rome). Few tombs exist of the Roman period earlier than the 1st Tombs. century B.c.,—probably owing to the great See also:extension of the See also:city beyond the Servian limits, which thus obliterated the earlier See also:burial-places. The See also:tomb of the Cornelii Scipiones is the most important of early date which still exists. It is excavated in the tufa See also:rock at the side of the Via Appia, outside the Porta See also:Capena. Interments of the Scipio See also:family went on here for about 400 years, additional See also:chambers and passages being excavated from time to time. The peperino See also:sarcophagus of See also:Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus (Liv. X. 12, 13), consul in 298 B.C., is now in the Vatican; its inscription, in See also:rude Saturnian See also:verse, is one of the most important existing specimens of early Latin See also:epigraphy. Many other inscribed slabs were found in the 17th century, covering the loculi in which See also:lay the bodies of later members of the family. Those now existing in the tomb are modern copies.' This burial-place of the Scipios is unlike those of other families, owing to the gens See also:Cornelia keeping up the early See also:custom of interment without burning; thus stone sarcophagi or loculi (rock-cut recesses) were required instead of See also:mere See also:pigeon-holes to hold the cinerary urns. The tomb of M. See also:Bibulus, a few yards outside the Porta Fontinalis, and remains of two recently ' See Vacca, ap. Fea, Misc, p. 67. 2 Reproduced by De Rossi in his Piante di Roma Anteriori at Sec. XVI. (1879). See Bellori, Veteres Arcus (169o), showing some now destroyed : and See also:Rossini, Archi Trionfali (1832). On the Antonine column see Petersen in Amelung's Katalog der vaticanischen Sculpturen, i. p. 883; on that of M. Aurelius see See also:Die Marcussdule, by Petersen, v. Domaszewski and Calderini (See also:Munich, 1896). The See also:inscriptions are given in C.I.L. i. 29-39—vi. 1284-94. On the earlier ones see Woelfflin, Mii.nchener Sitzungsberichte (1892), 188 if.discovered during the destruction of the Aurelian towers at the Porta Salara, date from about the middle of the 1st century B.c., as does also the curious tomb of the See also:baker Eurysaces outside the Porta See also:Maggiore. In 1863 an interesting tomb of the Sempronia gens' was discovered on the Quirinal, below the royal palace, near the site of the Porta Salutaris. It is of travertine, with a rich entablature and frieze sculptured with the Greek See also:honeysuckle ornament (see Bull. Comm. Arch., 1876, 126, pl. xii.). This also is of the last years of the See also:republic. The mausoleum of Augustus, built 28 B.C., stood in the north part of the Campus Martius, between the Tiber and the Via See also:Flaminia. It is a massive cylindrical structure of concrete, faced with Mausolea. opus reticulatum; according to See also:Strabo, this was faced with " white stone," i.e. travertine; inside was a See also:series of radiating chambers, in plan like a See also:wheel. On the top was a great See also:mound of See also:earth, planted with trees and See also:flowers (Tac. Ann. iii. 9). In the middle ages it was converted into a fortess by the Colonna, which was destroyed in 1167. In the 16th century the central portion was occupied by a garden.' Only the See also:bare core exists now, with its fine opus reticulatum, best seen in the See also:court of the Palazzo Valdambrini. The inside is concealed by modern seats, being now used as a See also:concert-hall (Anfiteatro Chorea). The sepulchral inscription in honour of Augustus, engraved on two bronze columns at the entrance, is preserved to us by its copy at See also:Ancyra (q.v.). It records an almost incredible amount of building: in addition to the long list of building'mentioned by name Augustus says, DVO. ET. OCTAGINTA. TEMPLA . DEVM.IN.VRBE . CONSVL. SEXTVM . REFECI.The first burial in the mausoleum of Augustus was that of M. Claudius Marcellus (died 23 B.C.), and it continued to be the imperial tomb till the death of See also:Nerva, A.D. 98, after whose interment there was no more room. The mausoleum of Hadrian, built by that emperor as a substitute for that built by Augustus, and dedicated in A.D. 138 by his successor, was a large circular building on a square See also:podium; its walls, of enormous thickness, were of tufa faced with Parian marble and surrounded by a See also:colonnade with rows of statues,—a work of the greatest magnificence. The splendour of the whole is described by See also:Procopius (See also:Bell. Goth. i. 22), who mentions its See also:siege by the Goths, when the defenders hurled statues on to the heads of the enemy. In the 7th century the church of S. See also:Angelus inter Nubes was built on its See also:summit, and all through the middle ages it served See also:asa papal fortress. The interior chambers are still well preserved, but its outside has been so often wrecked and refaced that little of the original See also:masonry is visible.8 Several of the grander sepulchral monuments of Rome were built in the form of pyramids. One of these still exists, included in the Aurelian wall, by the Porta Ostiensis. It is a See also:pyramid of concrete, I18 feet high, faced with blocks of white marble, Sepul. and contains a small chamber decorated with painted chral stucco. An inscription in large letters on the marble ps'ramlds. facing records that it was built as a tomb for C. See also:Cestius, a praetor, See also:tribune of the people, and septemvir of the epulones (officials who supervised banquets in honour of the gods). It was erected, according to Cestius's will, by his executors, in the space of 330 days. It See also:dates from the time of Augustus' (see Falconieri, in Nardini, Roma Anlica, iv. p. 1, ed. 1818-2o). Another similar pyramid, popularly known as the tomb of Romulus, stood between the mausoleum of Hadrian and the basilica of St Peter. It was destroyed at the close of the 15th century, during the rebuilding of the long See also:bridge which connects the former building with the Vatican. The earliest bridge was a wooden drawbridge called the Pons Sublicius from the piles (sublicae) on which it was built. The See also:river being an important part of the See also:defence of Rome from Bridges. the Aventine to the Porta Flumentana (see plan of Servian wall, fig. 8), no permanent bridges were made till the Romans were strong enough not to fear attacks from without. The Pons Sublicius had a sacred See also:character, and was always restored in wood, even in the imperial period.° Its exact site is doubtful, but it must be placed, some distance below the See also:Ponte Rotto. The first stone bridge was begun in 179 B.C. and completed in 142 B.C., when the conquest of See also:Etruria and the defeat of See also:Hannibal had put an end to fears of invasion; it was called the Pons Aemilius, after the See also:pontifex maximus" M. Aemilius See also:Lepidus, its founder. It was also called Pons ' This is shown by an inscription (C.I.L. vi. 26152) found on the site in the 17th century. 7 See Du Perac's Vestigj, pl. 36, which shows the garden on the top. 8 On the mausoleum of Hadrian, see Borgatti, See also:Castel S. Angelo (189o). ' Near the tomb of Cestius is that extraordinary mound of pot-sherds called Monte Testaccio. These are mostly fragments of large amphorae, not piled up at See also:random, but carefully stacked, with apertures at intervals for See also:ventilation. It has been shown by Dressel (Ann. dell' Inst., 1878, 118 ff.; C.I.L. xv. p. 492) that damaged or imperfect vessels were thus disposed of. °See Varro, L.L. v. 83; Ov. Fast. v. 622; Tac. Hist. i. 86; Vita Antonini Pii, 8. " The bridges were specially under the care of the pontifex, maximus, at least till the later years of the republic (Varro, I L. v. 83). Lapideus, to distinguish it from the woodenSublician bridge. The modern Ponte Rotto represents this bridge; but the existing arches are mainly See also:medieval. An ancient See also:basalt-paved road still exists, leading to the bridge from the Forum Boarium. The Pons See also:Fabricius See also:united the city and the See also:island (Insula Tiberina).' The bridge derived its name from L. Fabricius, a See also:curator viarum in 62 B:c; its inscription, twice repeated, is L . FABRICIVS . C . F . See also:CVR . VIAR. FACIVNDVM . COERAVIT. Like the other existing bridges, it is built of great blocks of peperino and tufa, with a massive facing of travertine on both sides. Corbels to support centering were built in near the springing of the arches, so that they could be repaired or even rebuilt without a scaffolding erected in the river-See also:bed. The well-preserved Pons Cestius, probably named after L. Cestius, praefectus urbi in 46 B.C., unites the island and the Janiculan side; on the marble See also:parapet is a long inscription re-cording its restoration in 370 by See also:Gratian, Valentinian, and See also:Valens.' The next bridge, Ponte Sisto, is probably on the site of an ancient bridge called in the Notitia Pons Aurelius. Marliano gives an inscription (now lost) which recorded its restoration in the time of Hadrian. About too yards above this bridge have been found the remains of sunken piers, which are proved by an inscription (C.I.L. Vi. 31545) to have belonged to the Pons Agrippae, not otherwise known. The Pons Aelius was built in 134 by Hadrian, to connect his mausoleum with the Campus Martius; it is still well preserved, and is now called the Ponte S. Angelo (see See also:Dante, Inferno, xviii. 28–33). It had eight arches, of which the three in the centre were higher than the rest, so that the road sloped on both sides. The material is peperino, with travertine facings. Its inscription, now lost, is given in the Einsiedeln MS.—IMP, CAESAR . DIVI . TRAIANI. PARTHICI . FILIVS DIVI NERVAE. NEPOS . TRAIANVS . See also:HADRIA N V S , AVG. See also:PONT • MAX TRIB . POT . X V See also:IIII . COS . III . P . P . FECIT. The Pons Aelius is shown on coins of Hadrian. A little below it are the foundations of another bridge, probably the. Pons Neronianus of the Mirabilia, called also Vaticanus, built probably by Nero as a way to his Vatican circus and the Horti Agrippinae. At the foot of the Aventine, near the Marmorata, are the remains of piers which seem to have belonged to the Pons Probi, mentioned in the Notitia. It is uncertain whether this bridge is to be identified with the Pons Theodosii, which was built in A.D. 381–387 (Symm. Ep. 4, 70, 2 ; 5, 76, 3), and is mentioned in the Mirabilia.' Regiones of Augustus. In spite of the extensive growth of the city under the republic no addition was made to the four regiones of Servius till the reign of Augustus, who divided the city and its suburbs Augustan into fourteen regiones. The lists in the Notitia and regiones. Curiosum are the See also:chief See also:aids in determining the limits of each, which in many cases cannot be done with any exactness (see See also:Preller, Die Regionen der Stadt Rom (1846) and Urlich's Codex Topographicus (See also:Wurzburg, 1871)). Each regio was divided into vici or parishes, each of which formed a religious See also:body, with its See also:aedicula larum, and had magistri victorum. The smallest regio (No. II.) contained seven vici, the largest (No. XIV.) seventy-eight. The list is as follows: I. See also:Porte Capena, a narrow See also:strip traversed by the See also:Appian Way; it extended beyond the walls of Aurelian to the See also:brook Almo. II. Caelemontium, the Caelian Hill. IV. Templum Pacis, included the Velia, part of the Cispius, most of the Subura, the fora of Nerva and Vespasian, the Sacra Via, and also buildings along the north-east side of the Forum Magnum. V. Esquiliae, north part of the Esquiline and the Viminal. VI. Alta Semita, the Quirinal as far as the praetorian camp. and by the neighbouring hills on the east. IX. Circus Flaminius, between the Tiber, the Capitol, and the Via Flaminia. X. Palatium, the Palatine hill. XI. Circus Maximus, the valley between the Palatine and the Aventine, with the Velabrum and Forum Boarium. 1 See also:Livy (ii. 5) gives the See also:fable of the formation of this island from the Tarquins' See also:corn, cut from the Campus Martius and thrown into the river. : The two stone bridges connecting the island with the right and left See also:banks took the place of earlier wooden structures. ' See Mayerhofer, Die Briicken See also:im See also:alien Rom, 1883.See also:Aventinus, the hill, and the See also:bank of the Tiber below it. The walls of Aurelian (see fig. 7), more than 12 m. in circuit, enclosed almost the whole of the regiones of Augustus, the greater part of which were then thickly inhabited. This enormous AureIiae work was begun in 271, to defend Rome against sudden x re attacks of the Germans and other See also:northern races when the great armies of Rome were fighting in distant countries.' After the death of Aurelian the walls were completed by See also:Probus in 28o, and about a century later they were restored and strengthened by the addition of gate-towers under See also:Arcadius and See also:Honorius (A.D. 403), in place of the earlier gateways of Aurelian; this is recorded by existing inscriptions on three of the See also:gates.' At many periodsthese walls suffered much more from the attacks of the Goths (Procop, Bell. Goth. iii, 22, 24), and were restored successively by See also:Theodoric (about 500), by See also:Belisarius (about 56o), and by various popes during the 8th and 9th centuries, and in fact all through the middle ages. A great part of the Aurelian wall still exists in a more or less perfect state; but it has wholly vanished where it skirted the river, and a great part of its trans-Tiberine course is gone. The best reserved pieces are between Porta Pinciana and Porta See also:Salaria best-preserved which breaches have lately been made for streets), and between the Lateran and the Amphitheatrum Castrense. The wall, of concrete, has the usual brick-facing and is about 12 ft. thick, with a guard's passage formed in its thickness. Fig. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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