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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, TELLUS, AEDES (search)
Ceres was associated with Tellus as on other occasions (WR 192-195). The fact that the worship of Tellus was very ancient makes it probable that there was a much earlier cult centre on the site afterwards occupied by the temple. The temple was sometimes used for meetings of the senate (Cic. Phil. i. 31; ad Att. xvi. 14. 1; App. BC ii. 126; Plut. Brut. 19; Cass. Dio xliv. 22. 3), and on its walls was a map of Italy (Varro, RR i. 2. ; Urlichs, Malerei in Rom, p. 8). It was standing in the fourth century (Not. Reg. IV), but nothing is known of its later history. Its site was very probably between the present Vie del Colosseo and dei Serpenti (Gilb. i. 193-195; HJ 323-326), but Ligorio's account of the discovery of remains belonging to it is open to suspicion (BC 1892, 32-37; LS iii. 5-6; Mitt. 1893, 301-302; HJ loc. cit.). Cf. HCh 444, 445, 522, 523 for the (apo- cryphal) church of S. Salvator in Tellumine (in Tellude), and for a frieze representing a gigantomachy, which perhaps came fro
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, THERMAE ANTONINIANAE (CARACALLAE) (search)
inita (DuP 89). The other two entrances at each end of the central block led into two halls which gave directly on to the two palaestrae, one at each end of the longer axis of the building. These were open courts surrounded by a colonnade on three sides with a row of three rooms opening towards the fourth side. On the axis of the central hall and opening out of it are two apsidal recesses, each of which contained a large mosaic pavement representing athletes, and dating probably from the fourth century. They were discovered in 1824, and placed in the Lateran museum, where they have been somewhat arbitrarily re-arranged (HF ii. p. 1, No. 1240; Nogara, Mosaici del Vat. e del Lat. pls. i.-iv.). Two low openings on the minor axis of the central hall lead into a small rectangular room, probably the tepidarium, which serves as the vestibule to the great circular caldarium in the centre of the south-west side. Its lofty dome (in which almost for the first time amphorae were used to lighten t
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, THERMAE DECIANAE (search)
he thermae was between the present churches of S. Alessio and S. Prisca, in the Vigna Torlonia, and Palladio's plan corresponds with the remains of foundation walls still existing under and around the casino of the vigna. Excavations on this site since the seventeenth century have resulted in the discovery of large halls with mosaic pavements and painted marble and stucco decoration (Bartoli, Mem. 125, 127, 129; Vacca, Mem. 90; Ficoroni, Mem. 22), of inscribed pedestals of statues erected during the fourth century by prefects of the city (CIL vi. 1159, 1160, 1167, 1192 (?), 1651 (?), 1672; BC 1878, 253-256; DE ii. 1478); and of works of art such as the infant Hercules in basalt and the relief of Endymion now in the Capitoline Museum (HF 807, 863; Cap. 219, 275). For these excavations and their literature, see LS iii. 143-144; LR 544-546; Merlin 316-317, and especially App. Nos. 3, 6, 8, Ir, 12, 34, 37; for the thermae in general, HJ 163-164; LF 34; BC 1914, 348-349; RE iv. 2269-2270.
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, THERMAE SEVERIANAE (search)
THERMAE SEVERIANAE baths built by Septimius Severus in Region I (Not. Cur.), which were standing in the fourth century, but are not mentioned afterwards (Hist. Aug. Sever. 19; Chron. 147; Hier. a. Abr. 2216). They were probably south of the baths of Caracalla (HJ 217-218; Merlin 329, n. 6, 384; Jord. ii. 512-513).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, THERMAE TRAIANI (search)
e (cf. LP xxxiv. 33; liii. 9; Mel. 1886, 3-4; BC 1886, 245; Mon. L. i. 484-485). In Trajan's time they were used by women (Chron. 146:hoc imperatore mulieres in thermis Traianis laverunt); little images (sigillaria) were exposed for sale in the porticus of the thermae in the last days of the Saturnalia (which were sometimes called Sigillaria from this practice; see SIGILLARIA) (Schol. ad Iuv. 6. 154); they are mentioned incidentally in inscriptions (vi. 9797=AL 29. 4; 8677, 8678); and in the fourth or fifth century they were adorned with statues by Iulius Felix Campanianus, prefect of the city (CIL vi. 1670). The correct name was attached to the gradually diminishing ruins until about the sixteenth century, when it was displaced by the incorrect name, thermae Titianae. Part of these baths is represented on a fragment of the Marble Plan (109; cf. Lanciani quoted by Gatti, BC 1886, 272-274), and in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries drawings and plans were made of the existing ruins
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, TIGILLUM SORORIUM (search)
TIGILLUM SORORIUM a wooden crossbar supported by two vertical posts beneath which tradition said the surviving Horatius was compelled to pass in expiation of the murder of his sister (Liv. i. 26. 4; Fcst. 297; Dionys. iii. 22; de vir. ill. g; HJ 322). It stood ad compitum (Hem. Arv. ad Kal. Oct., CIL vi. 32482), perhaps on the VICUS CUPRIUS (q.v.), but in any case somewhere on the south-west slope of the Oppius. It is mentioned last in the fourth century (Not. Reg. IV). Various explanations of this yoke have been suggested, among them that it represented a gate in the enclosure of the original Esquiline village (BC 1898, 94), or a gate through which the army passed for purification on returning from battle (AR 1909, 73), or a gate in the Septimontium, sacred to Ianus Quirinus (Pais, Storia di Roma i. 458), or a true ianus or street gate which, with the two adjacent altars of Ianus Curiatius and Iuno Sororia, was connected with the common cult of Janus and Juno at the beginning of
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, AD TO(N)SORES (search)
AD TO(N)SORES a district or street near the temple of FLORA (q.v.) and the north end of the circus Maximus, which is mentioned only in one inscription, a slave's collar (CIL xv. 7172; Mitt. 1891, 342 ; 1892, 312). Hulsen had in these articles referred the inscription to the temple of Flora on the Quirinal, but the mention of the praefectus annonae led him to change his opinion (HJ I 8). We also find in a catalogue of artisans of the end of the fourth century (CIL vi. 31900) a ' tonsor ad circum.'
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, VESTA, AEDICULA, ARA (search)
A * a shrine which Augustus, after becoming pontifex maximus, built close to or within his own house on the Palatine, and dedicated 28th April, 12 B.C. (Ov. Fast. iv. 951; Met. xv. 864; Fast. Caer. Praen. ad iv Kal. Mai, CIL is. p. 213, 236; and possibly Cass. Dio liv. 27. 3; cf. CIL i². p. 317). It is regarded as probable that a Palladium was kept within this temple (cf. coins with Vesta and Palladium, Stevenson, Dictionary of Roman Coins, 854-855), referred to in an inscription of the fourth century from Privernum (CIL x. 6441: praepositus palladii Palatini), Cf. DOMUS AUGUSTIANA (p. 165). and that this temple became in time more important than that in the forum (WR 76, 156). No certain traces of it have been found, and its location is uncertain. Some sixteenth century drawings (Dosio, Florence, Uffizi 2039) have been thought to represent this round temple on the Palatine (BC 1883, 198-202 ; GA 1888, 151-152 ; Altm. 72), but this view has been vigorously combated by Hulsen (Mitt.
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, VIA FLAMINIA (search)
i, resumed its former direction. It then ran across the campus Martius, forming the boundary between the seventh and ninth regions of Augustus, and on in an absolutely straight line to the pons Mulvius, a distance of about 3 miles. Burial on it was regarded as a special honour; cf. Stat. Silv. ii. I. 176; Mart. vi. 28, 29; viii. 75. 1, 2 (see VIA TECTA); xi. 13; Iuv. i. 170; see HJ 462-464, 471, 484, 491-492, 621. The part within the Aurelian walls was known as the via Lata from the fourth century A.D. onwards. The modern Corso coincides absolutely with the ancient line, and the two churches which flank it where it ends in the Piazza del Popolo both stand on ancient tombs, while many other tombs were sacrificed for the construction of the PORTA FLAMINIA. The cura of the road was generally held alone (CIL ii. 4126, 4510 (cf. xiv. 3599) ; vi. 1333, 1529, 3836; x. 506 ; Rev. Arch. 1889, i. 426, n. 92; BC 1891, 111), but once appears associated with that of the Tiburtina This is somewh
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, VICTORIA, ARA (search)
VICTORIA, ARA an altar in the curia Iulia (Fast. Maff. Vat. ad v Kal. Sept., CIL ia. p. 225,242,327; Herodian. vii. 11.3), presumably erected by Augustus at the same time (29 B.C.) that he set up a statue of the same goddess in the same place (Cass. Dio li. 22; Suet. Aug. 100; Herodian. v. 5. 7). During the bitter struggle between Christianity and Paganism in the fourth century, this altar was regarded as the symbol of the old religion. It was removed from the senate house first by Constantius in 357, but seems to have been restored, by Julian, no doubt, and finally banished by Gratian in 382 (Sym. Rel. 3; Ambros. Ep. i. 17. 4; 18. , 7, O, 32; 57. 4-6; Seeck, Symmachus liii-liv, lviii; WR 98, 141 ; Jord. i. 2. 251-252).
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