SCHOLA XANTHI
an office of the scribae, praecones and librarii of the
curule aediles which was erected on the site of an earlier one by Bebryx
Aug. lib. Drusianus and A. Fabius Xanthus (hence the modern name
Schola Xanthi) during the principate of Tiberius, and restored by a certain
C. Avilius Licinius Trosius in the early part of the third century. This
is known from the double inscription (
CIL vi. 103=30692;
Mitt. 1888,
208-232), which is repeated on the inside and outside of the epistyle
of a small but beautiful building that was excavated in 1539 (
LS ii.
185-186) between the arches of Tiberius and Septimius Severus, and
shortly afterwards destroyed. During the excavations of 1900-1902
there were found on the site of this earlier discovery, in front of the
row of chambers that support the clivus Capitolinus, the remains of a
room of trapezoidal shape, with a pavement of white marble. A marble
seat encircled three sides of the chamber and in the middle of the north
wall is a door from which a flight of steps led up to the level of the clivus
Capitolinus. There were also marks of posts or columns on the pavement.
The concrete of this building dates from 14-16 A.D. (
AJA 1912, 398),
and corresponds with the indication of the inscription, while the ruins
agree with the accounts of the first discovery. It is therefore generally
assumed that this is the schola or office of the aediles' clerks (
Jord. i. 2.
367;
Mitt. 1902, 12-13;
BC 1903, 164;
Gilb. iii. 161-162; Thedenat
162, 265; HC 69-70; DR 385-387; RE
Suppl. iv. 500-501).
