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AMPHITHEATRUM CASTRENSE
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ARAE INCENDII NERONIS
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ARAE INCENDII NERONIS
altars erected by Domitian, probably one
in each region, to commemorate the great fire of Nero and also incendiorum arcendorum causa (CIL vi. 826, 30837). These altars were
dedicated to Neptune, and copies exist of the inscriptions from three of
them. One of these altars is recorded as having been used as building
material for S. Peter's in the early sixteenth century. Another stood on
the south-west side of the circus at the foot of the slope of the Aventine,
within the present limits of the Jewish cemetery, where some remains of
the steps were found. A third, rediscovered in 1889, stood in an area
paved with travertine on the south side of the Alta Semita, opposite the
temple of Quirinus, under the Ministero della Casa Reale, close to the
modern church of S. Andrea. The three steps that led up from this area
to the higher level of the street have been traced for a distance of 35 metres
(and are partially visible in the modern wall). Along the front of
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
ARCO DI DRUSO
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ARCO DI DRUSO
the name that has been given since the sixteenth century
to the arch on the via Appia just inside the Porta S. Sebastiano, perhaps
the arcus Recordationis of the Einsiedeln Itinerary (11. 3; 13. 24), but
see ARCUS DRUSI. Only the central part of this arch is now standing, but
it was originally triple, or at least with projections on each side, and of
somewhat elaborate construction, although never finished. It is built
of travertine, which was faced with marble, and on each side of the archway
are unfluted columns of Numidian marble with white marble bases and capitals of the Composite order. The archway is 7.21 metres high, 5.34 wide and
5.61 deep. The aqua Antoniniana, the branch of the AQUA MARCIA (q.v.)
built by Caracalla in 211-216 A.D., ran over this arch, but the brick-faced
concrete that is now visible on top of the arch seems to belong to a period
later than that of Caracalla. This arch cannot be identified with that
of Drusus, both because it is so far fr
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
ARCO DI PORTOGALLO
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ARCUS NOVUS (DIOCLETIANI)
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ARCUS NOVUS (DIOCLETIANI)
* mentioned in the Regionary Catalogue in
Region VII, and ascribed to Diocletian in the Chronograph of 354 A.D.
(p. 148). This is probably the marble arch, adorned with trophies,
which spanned the via Lata, close to the north-east corner of the present
church of S. Maria in via Lata, and was destroyed by Innocent VIII
(1488-1492). The last remains disappeared in 1523 (LS i. 217). The
fragments of a relief found at this point in the sixteenth century, and now
in the Villa Medici, probably came from this arch. The inscription-
VOTIS X VOTIS XX (CIL vi. 31383)-suggests that on the arch of Constantine. If this was the arch of Diocletian, and the inscription belongs
to it, it was probably built in 303-304 (BC 1895, 46; Jord. ii. 102, 417;
HJ 469; PBS iii. 271; Matz-Duhn, Antike Bildwerke 3525).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
ARCUS OCTAVII
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ARCUS OCTAVII
an arch on the Palatine which Augustus is said to have
erected in honour of his father (Plin. NH xxxvi. 36: Lysiae opus quod in
Palatio super arcum divus Augustus honori Octavi patris sui dicavit in
aedicula columnis adornata, id est quadriga currusque et Apollo ac Diana
ex uno lapide). It has been conjectured (BC 1883, 190) that this arch
formed the entrance to the sacred precinct of the temple of APOLLO
(q.v.), but this seems impossible of proof. Some fragments found
in the middle of the sixteenth century may have belonged to this arch
(Vacca, Mem. 76). The aedicula with a statue on the top of the arch
was without parallel in Rome, so far as we know (Gardthausen, Augustus
und seine Zeit i. 962; Richter 147; HJ 69; Jex-Blake and Sellers,
The Elder Pliny's Chapters on the History of Art 208).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
BASILICA IUNII BASSI
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BASILICA IUNII BASSI
consul ordinarius in 331 A.D. (not
317, cf. Gotting.
Nachr. 1904, 345), situated on the Esquiline east of S.
Maria Maggiore.
The inscription, in mosaic, was copied in the sixteenth
century (Iunius
Bassus, v.c. consul ordinarius propria impensa a solo fecit
et dedicavit
feliciter, CIL vi. 1737) in the apse of a richly decorated
hall belonging
to it. He died in 359 (ib. 32004).
In the time of Pope Simplicius (468-483) the hall was
dedicated by
the munificence of the oth Valila (or Flavius
Theodobius) as the
church of S. Andrea cata Barbara Patricia (LP xlviii. 1).
Drawings of the fine decorations in marble and mosaic
were made
by Giuliano da Sangallo (Barb. 31' and text, p. 47) and at
the end of
the sixteenth century (see Hulsen in Festschrift fur Julius
Schlosser
(Vienna, 1926), 53-67, at the end of which a list of the
drawings is given;
add Windsor, Portfolio 5, No. 60 (Inv. 12121), for which
see PBS vi. 186,
n. 2; and Holkham, ii. 8, 9, 11; Baddel
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CASTRA PRAETORIA
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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
CIRCUS FLAMINIUS
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