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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, AMPHITHEATRUM FLAVIUM (search)
of the Corinthian order, and its arches are 6.40 metres high. Above this is a third entablature and attic. In each of the second and third arcades was a statue. The attic above the third arcade is 2.10 metres high, and is pierced by small rectangular windows over every second arch. On it rests the upper division of the wall, which is solid and adorned with flat Corinthian pilasters in place of the half-columns of the lower arcades, but shows numerous traces of rude reconstruction in the third century (Lanciani, Destruction of Ancient Rome, figs. 9, 10). Above the pilasters is an entablature, and between every second pair of pilasters is a window cut through the wall- Cf. Mitt. 1897, 334-; 1925, 30-33. In the remaining spaces between the pilasters the clipea were fixed (Colagrossi, Anfiteatro Flavio, 45-47: 257-264). (see below, p. 9). Above these openings is a row of consoles-three between each pair of pilasters. In these consoles are sockets for the masts which projected upward th
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, BELLONA PULVINENSIS, AEDES (search)
BELLONA PULVINENSIS, AEDES a temple mentioned in three inscriptions (CIL vi. 490, 2232, 2233; DE i. 175), of the Cappadocian goddess Ma-Bellona, whose worship seems to have displaced that of the Latin Bellona during the empire. This temple was probably not built before the third century, and its site is unknown. It had no connection with the pulvinar of the circus Flaminius (HJ 554; WR 349-350; RE iii. 256; PBS ix. 205-213, where CIL xiii. 7281, which refers to the restoration by the hastiferi (a priestly college of Bellona) Civitatis Mattiacorum of a Mons Vaticanus, is coupled with the existence of tombstones of her priests-the two last inscriptions cited-on the via Triumphalis, to support the conjecture that this temple was situated somewhere on the montes Vaticani).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, DEA CARNA, SACRUM (search)
DEA CARNA, SACRUM (templum, Macrob.): a temple of Dea Carna (quae vitalibus, i.e. humanis, praeest) said to have been vowed by L. Junius Brutus on 1st June in the first year of the republic, and dedicated by him some time afterwards (Macrob. Sat. i. 12. 31-32). It was on the Caelian, and seems to have been standing in the third century (Tert. ad nat. ii. 9 ; RE iii. 1598; Rosch. i. 854; WR 236 ; Gilb. ii. 19-22).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, DIS PATER, AEDES (search)
DIS PATER, AEDES a temple in Region XI which is mentioned only in Not. (not in Cur.). It is probably the AEDES SUMMANI (q.v.), as Summanus was explained in the third and fourth century as Summus Manium, and so identified with Dis Pater (WR 135; HJ 119; Gilb. iii. 436; Rosch. iv. 1601). Cf. also ELAGABALUS, TEMPLUM.
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, CAECILII, DOMUS (search)
CAECILII, DOMUS According to the legend S. Caecilia was exposed for three days to the heat of the calidarium in the baths of the house of her family, during the persecution of M. Aurelius. Excavations under the church dedicated to her in Trastevere brought to light (in 1899-1900） considerable remains of Roman brick walls of the first half of the second century A.D., intermingled with still earlier (though not republican) structures in opus quadratum. There are also later walls (third and fourth century) with rough mosaic pavements. In one room are circular basins, for the fulling of cloth or for tanning (see CORARIA SEPTIMIANA and cf. Mau, Pompeii, 416). To the upper floor of the aneient building belongs the room heated with a hypocaust, now in the chapel on the right of the present church. The older basiliea was perhaps to the left of this. See BCr 1899, 261; 1900, 143, 265; NS 1900, 12-14, 230; Cosmos Catholicus iv. (1902), 648; Leclereq in Cabrol, Diet. ii. 2765; HJ 638-6
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, FLAVIUS VEDIUS ANTONINUS c.v. , DOMUS (search)
FLAVIUS VEDIUS ANTONINUS c.v. , DOMUS on the Viminal, near the Ministero delle Finanze, known only from a lead pipe of the second or third century (CIL xv. 7456; but cf. Pros. ii. 77. 261).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, IOHANNES ET PAULUS, DOMUS (search)
IOHANNES ET PAULUS, DOMUS * the house in which S. John and S. Paul (not the Apostles, but two officers who suffered martyrdom under Julian) were murdered, situated on the Caelian just south-west of the porticus Claudia, in the present Via di SS. Giovanni e Paolo (perhaps the CLIVUS SCAURI, q.v.), under the church of that name. The excavations show a private dwelling of the second century, enlarged and rebuilt in the third and fourth, in which, probably in the second half of the third century, a titulus was instituted (titulus Byzantis), while Pammachius founded the basilica at the end of the fourth century. The enlargement consisted for the most part in connecting two houses that had been separated by a narrow street. Upwards of thirty rooms have been opened up, among them a cavaedium, with five rows of three rooms each on the south side, bathrooms, storerooms and stairways. The discovery of an interesting Pagan painting with a marine scene in 1909 may be noticed. The house had th
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, CN. POMPEIUS, DOMUS (search)
mm. 15; App. BC ii. 126; Veil. ii. 77 ; Cic. de Har. resp. 49). It was ornamented with rostra taken from captured pirate ships (Cic. Phil. ii. 68), and therefore called domus rostrata (Hist. Aug. Gord. 3). V. Domaszewski (SHA 1920, 6. A, 16) maintains that the name domus rostrata is a mere invention-as also the story that it belonged to the Gordiani, inasmuch as it must have perished in the fire of Nero (HJ 326). After the death of Pompeius the house became the property of Antonius (Cass. Dio xlviii. 38; Flor. ii. 18. 4; de vir. ill. 84), and later of the imperial family. Tiberius lived in it before his accession (Suet. Tib. 15), and in the third century it is said to have belonged to the Gordiani (Hist. Aug. Gord. 2, 3, 6, 17). (b) According to Plutarch (Pomp. 40) Pompeius built himself a finer house than he had previously occupied, after the erection of his theatre. This second house was probably near his HORTI (q.v.) in the campus Martius and on the slope of the Pincian (HJ 492).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, DUAS DOMOS, AD (search)
DUAS DOMOS, AD the name applied to the church of S. Susanna on the Quirinal, under which remains of a house of the third century A.D. have been found (Kirsch, Ram. Titelkirchen, 70-74).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, HONOS, AEDES (search)
HONOS, AEDES the oldest temple of Honos in Rome, just outside the porta Collina, dating from republican times but probably not earlier than the third century. All that is known of it is stated by Cicero (de leg. ii. 58: nostis extra portam Collinam aedem Honoris: aram in eo loco fuisse proditum est. Ad eam cum lamina esset inventa et in ea scriptura DOMINA HONORIS, ea causa fuit huius aedis dedicandae. Sed cum multa in eo loco sepulcra fuissent, exarata sunt; statuit enim collegium locum publicum non potuisse privata religione teneri The text is as given by Hiilsen: Vahlen reads 'memoriae proditum est; in ea scriptum lamina HONORIS; dedicare; obligari (for teneri).' , but an archaic inscription (CIL vi. 3692=30913:=i2. 31 ; ILS 3794. M (?) Bicoleio V. l. Honore donum dede(t) mereto), found under the east wing of the Ministero delle Finanze, probably belongs to it, and had not been removed from its original site. A dedication to Virtus (CIL vi. 31061) may also have been set up
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