Some Review Images

From the Midterm

Mons Testaceus (Monte Testaccio)

• 2 general views [Curran, Buffalo]
• 19th century photograph [Mount of Amphorae]
• Detail of sherds [Perseus]

Bridges

• The model of ancient Rome at the University of Caen has a view of the three bridges discussed in class.
(You should also be able to recognize several other monuments in this model.)
• Aerial view of the Tiber island and vicinity
• An early drawing that shows the Pons Aemilius before the late 19th century, when all the remaining arches apart from the one that survives today were demolished:
• 18th century drawing [Isola Tiberina]
(Note the Pons Fabricius in the background, and the two temples in the Forum Boarium at lower right)

Basilica Aemilia / Basilica Paulli (and "Porticus of Gaius and Lucius")

• Plan [Ruebel, VRoma]
• 4 photographs [Koskimies]
• Coin with a representation of the Basilica [Thais.it]

• Plan [Roma Antiqua]
• 7 photographs (interior and exterior) and 2 old drawings [Koskimies]
• including this particularly nice 16th c. drawing of the Curia as the church of S. Adriano
• opus sectile floor [VRoma]
• coin of Augustus with representation of the Curia Iulia [Bologna Museum]
  
• Bronze doors of the Curia reused in basilica of S. Giovanni in Laterano (anddetail of the doors)

• Remains of the Imperial Rostra from the southeast (i.e. from the front) [Just, Loyola Marymount]
• Two more from the southwest: one / two [Perseus]
• Good view of the remains from northeast [Perseus]
• Reconstruction drawing [VRoma]

• 6 photographs [Koskimies]
• Reconstruction drawing and cross-section [Thayer, Lacus Curtius]
• Reconstruction drawing of exterior [Miller, UCB]
• Reconstruction drawing of interior [Galinsky, UTexas]
• Another reconstruction of the interior [Miller, UCB]
• Fragment of the Marble Plan with portions of the Basilica Iulia and Temple of Castor [Stanford FUR Project]

Forum Iulium a.k.a. Forum of Caesar (and Temple of Venus Genetrix)

• Plans of the Forum Iulium:
• one [Ruebel, VRoma]
• two [somewhere in the Netherlands]
• Coin with representation of Forum Iulium and Temple of Venus Genetrix [Ruebel, VRoma]
• 11 photographs of the remains [Koskimies]

• Plan of the temple and environs [Roma Antiqua]
• 11 photographs [Perseus]
• Coin of Augustus with representation of the Temple of the Divine Julius [Withers, UCB]

• Augustan coin with a representation of a single arch [romancoins.info]  (bottom right; this is usually identified as the Actian arch of 29 B.C.)
• Augustan coin with a representation of a triple arch [Encyclopaedia Romana] (usually identified as the Parthian arch of  19 B.C.)
  

• Baths of Agrippa
• Model [Univ of Caen]
• Reconstruction drawing (= Nash, fig. 1228) [Miller, UCB]
• Photograph of the remains of the central rotunda of the baths (= Nash, fig. 1224) [Miller, UCB]

• Reconstruction drawing [Lenski, Univ of Colorado] (also available here [Brown Univ] and here)
(note Ara Pacis at right and Mausoleum of Augustus in background)
• A photo of the obelisk [Walker, VRoma]
• Detail of the inscription on the base of the obelisk [Miller, UCB]
• 18th century engraving by G. Vasi of the excavation of the obelisk in 1748 [romeartlover.it]

• General views of the Porta Maggiore, with the tomb of Eurysaces in front
• one [Erlangen]
• two [Colorado Springs]
• Details of the frieze:
• Grinding the grain and kneading the dough
(cf. this photo of actual flour mills at Pompeii)
• Weighing the finished loaves

• Coin with a representation of Caligula sacrificing in front of the temple [romancoins.info]

• Photographs of the bell tower of the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, built on top of the corner of the platform of the Temple of Claudius [Koskimies]
• General view [Koskimies]
• Closer view of the rusticated masonry at the base of the tower [Koskimies]

• Plan of the Temple of Peace (incorporating fragments of the ancient Marble Plan)
• the wall on which the Marble Plan of Rome was originally displayed)

• Coins with representations of the Colosseum and adjacent monuments:
• the Colossus and the Meta Sudans [Miller, UCB]
• the Meta Sudans [Miller, UCB]
• Reconstruction drawing of the Meta Sudans [Roma Antiqua]
• 19th century photograph showing the stump of the Meta Sudans (center) [Erlangen]
• Results of recent excavations around the Meta Sudans [Univ of Rome]

• photograph showing its relationship to the Temple of Saturn and the Tabularium [Koskimies]
• plan
  
• an 18th century engraving by Piranesi
  
• Details of the frieze of sacrificial implements on the entablature
• the actual frieze still on the standing columns [Koskimies]
• Reconstruction drawing (note the arcades of the Tabularium in back) (cf. Claridge, fig. 22) [Roma Antiqua]

• Models
• Model of the Stadium and Odeum [Miller, UCB]
• Model of the Stadium [SHOT, Holy Cross]
• Photographs
• Aerial view of the Piazza Navona [Colorado Springs]
• Another aerial view [Miller, UCB]

• 7 photographs and 4 old drawings [Koskimies]
• (The old drawings are particularly valuable here: in this one and this one, you can still see the substantial remains of the Temple of Minerva at the north end of the forum, before its demolition in 1606 by Pope Paul V. Cf. this plan of the temple by the Renaissance architect Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.  Note too that even in the 16th century the Argiletum was still in use as a road!)

• 13 photographs [Koskimies]

• 21 photographs [Curran, Buffalo]
• (including some of the "Aula Traiana")