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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, CIRCUS MAXIMUS (search)
r gladiatorial combats and fights with wild beasts, as well as for races; but after the building of the amphitheatre of Statilius Taurus, and still more after the erection of the Colosseum, the first species of entertainment was largely, although not entirely removed from the circus. The last recorded games took place under Totila in 550 A.D. (Procop. b. Goth. iii. 37), and in that century the destruction of the circus began. The form of the circus was still clearly recognisable in the sixteenth century (DuP 107-112). At present a small portion of the seats at the curved end, on the N.E. side, are still visible, and traces were found further N.W. in making a drain in 1873-4 along the Via dei Cerchi (Mora in Messaggero, 25th March, 1924). The name de gradellis, applied to churches of S. Gregorio and S. Maria (HCh 258, 336 sqq.) does not refer to the circus (LS i. 90) but probably to the steps that descended to the mills in the Tiber. See in general HJ 120- 144; RE iii. 2572-2581; Gilb
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, COLUMNA M. AURELII ANTONINI (search)
and metaphorically), as Isid. Orig. 15. 2. 38 suggests. It was called centenaria because it was one hundred feet high. This monument was more carefully preserved than most of those in Rome, having been given in the tenth century by Popes Agapetus II and John XII to the Benedictines of S. Silvestro in capite, with the little church of S. Andrea de Columna There was also a church of S. Lucia de Columna (HCh 302). (HCh 182, 183), but it suffered somewhat from fire and earthquake. In the sixteenth century repairs were made by the municipal authorities, and also by Sixtus V in 1589 and the following year, when Fontana, his architect, placed on top of the column the present statue of St. Paul. He also chiselled off from the pedestal what remained of the reliefs on its four sides-sacrificial scenes with Victories and garlands-and encased its upper part, above ground, with marble, some of which came from the Septizonium (LS iii. 146-149). The dedicatory inscription had long ago disappear
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, CURIA IULIA (search)
doubt he who took the opportunity of dedicating the Chalcidicum to his patron goddess Minerva, whence it acquired the name of Atrium Minervae (Notit. Reg. VIII). This curia is represented in the famous Anaglypha Traiani (see ROSTRA). It is perhaps also represented in one of the reliefs of the arch of Benevento (Mitt. 1892, 257; SScR 194). The curia was burnt down in the fire of Carinus, and rebuilt by Diocletian (Chron. 148), and the existing building dates from his time. We learn from sixteenth century drawings (Lanciani, Mem. L. 3. xi. 5-21 ; Mitt. 1895, 47-52) that it formed part of a group with the Atrium Minervae and the Secretarium Senatus. The curia proper is a hall 25.20 metres by 17.61 metres, of brick-faced concrete, with a huge buttress at each angle; the lower part of the front wall was decorated with slabs of marble, while the upper part (like the exterior of the thermae of Caracalla and Diocletian) was covered with stucco in imitation of white marble blocks with heavily
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, DECEM TABERNAE (search)
DECEM TABERNAE a locality, perhaps a street, in Region VI, mentioned only in the Regionary Catalogue. The name is also said to have occurred on an inscription that was to be seen in the sixteenth century (Albertini, Mirabilia Urbis Romae, f. D iii. ed. 1510; f. 8, ed. 1523). The 1515 edition follows the paging of that of 1510. In all three the phrase used is' ut in tiburtinis lapidibus noviter effossis apparet.' Marliani gives the same information (Topographia, ed. 1534, lib. v. c. 18, p. 116); but he improved on it in his second edition, and wrote 'decem tabernae fuere in valle D. Agathae aedi subiectae, ut ex inscriptione marmoris ibidem effossi didicimus' (id. ed. 1544, lib. iv. c. 20, p. 86). Whether this is a mistake or a correction is uncertain (Hulsen, etc., S. Agata dei Goti (Rome, 1923), 10). It is marked on Bufalini's plan of the city, and was probably on the Viminal, near the churches of S. Lorenzo in Panisperna and S. Agata dei Goti (IIJ 374; Mitt. 1892, 307; RhM 189
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, AUGUSTIANA, DOMUS (search)
. (b) The second section of the palace lies to the south-east of the first, and appears to have contained the residential apartments. From a curved terrace on the south-west a large arched opening (now closed, but visible in drawings of the sixteenth century (Ill. 18); cf. esp. Heemskerck ii. 92 , 93; Wyngaerde's panorama repr. in Mel. 1906, 179, pls. iv.-vii.) led into a courtyard, surrounded by a colonnade, behind which were rooms of elaborate plan. They were excavated and plundered at the en between lyres and masks, belongs to some small circular building not certainly identified (HJ 76, n. 90; PT 129; for a fragment at Milan, ItF 1263; SScR 63. It is identical in design (if not actually) with one of the fragments drawn in the sixteenth century by Dosio, Uilizi 203' ; see ?Mitt. IS95, 28-37, where they are attributed to a (perhaps) two-storied tholos in or near the peristyle of the state apartments. The building is believed by others to have been a temple of Vesta. cf. BC 1883, 2
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, AUREA, DOMUS (search)
bule a view opened out over the great park described above, and down on the lake, on the site of which the Colosseum was built, which formed the centre of the whole: and in the park around it, besides the main palace on the north-east, were various smaller detached buildings, as at Hadrian's Villa. On the Velia itself, to the north of the temple of Venus and Rome and to the east of the basilica of Constantine, are remains of buildings now covered by a garden, in which architects of the sixteenth century (Fra Giocondo ? and Ligorio) saw two oblong courts surrounded by porticoes (M6e. 1891, 161-167; Archaeologia li. 2 (1888) 498; Mitt. 1892, 289, 291 ; JRS 1919, 180). To the east a small nymphaeum, adorned with niches for statues and decorated with sea-shells, was found in 1895 (NS 1895, 79; BC 1895, 127; LR 361, 362, who says that it was in the same Vigna dei Nobili that the excavations of 1668 were made, in which an interesting painting, perhaps representing the harbour of Puteoli, wa
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, APPIUS CLAUDIUS MARTIALIS, DOMUS (search)
APPIUS CLAUDIUS MARTIALIS, DOMUS on the western part of the ridge of the Quirinal, known only from a lead pipe found in the vigna of the Cardinal d'Este in the sixteenth century, corresponding with the west part of the Palazzo del Quirinale (CIL xv. 7427). Appius Claudius Martialis was leg. Aug. pro praet. Prov. Thraeiae (161-169 A.D.; Pros. i. 387. 743). Cf. Hilsen, Rom. Antikengarten 87; HJ 423, 424.
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, LICINIUS SURA, DOMUS (search)
LICINIUS SURA, DOMUS see THERMAE SURANAE for the house on the Aventine. Sura probably had another house on the Caelian, near the Lateran, where the base of a statue with a dedicatory inscription (CIL vi. 1444） was found in the sixteenth century (LS iii. 75). See Pros. ii. 285. 174
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, APP. SILVIUS IUNIUS SILVINUS, DOMUS (search)
APP. SILVIUS IUNIUS SILVINUS, DOMUS on the Quirinal, but known only from an inscribed pipe found in the vineyard of the Cardinal d'Este (corresponding with the western part of the royal palace) in the sixteenth century (CIL xv. 7539). Cf. APPIUS CLAUDIUS MARTIALIS.
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, FORUM AUGUSTUM (search)
1927) 61 : YW 1926-7, 102: Gnomon, i. 244-245 is incorrect). in honour of the victories of Drusus and Germanicus in Germany (Tac. Ann. ii. 64; CIL vi. 91 ). Pliny regarded this forum with the temple of Peace and the basilica Aemilia, as the three most beautiful buildings in the world (xxxvi. 102), and says that the timber used in its construction was cut in the Raetian Alps in the dog days, considered to be the best time (xvi. 191). In fact, wooden dowels (see below) were found in the sixteenth century so well preserved that they could be used again (Vacca, Memorie 89; Mem. L. 3. xiii. 1884, 402). As might be expected, many works of art were collected in the forum (Plin. NH vii. 183; xxxiv. 48; xxxv. 27. 93-94; Serv. Aen. i. 294; Paus. viii. 46. I. 4), including a quadriga dedicated by the senate to Augustus (Mon. Anc. vi. 26) ; and in the temple, which was as magnificent as the rest of the structure (Plin. xxxiv. 141; Ov. Fast. v. 551-552, 555-568; Trist. ii. 295-296; Tac. Ann. iii.
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