Forum Romanum - Podium of the Temple of Castor and Pollux, or the Dioscuri, in 1874. Photographer: Unknown
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This basement is of the time of the Kings (rebuilt B.C. 479; Livii Hist., ii, 20); the celebrated three columns, of which the lower part is shewn, are of the time of the early Empire (A.D. 4; Dio, xlvii. 18).'
Forum Romanum - Remains of the podium of the Temple of Vesta and Fountain of Juturna in 1874. Photographer: Unknown
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The basement of this temple is of the time of the Kings, built when the two hills were united in one city (Dionys., ii. 50). The remains of the fountain are of the time of Augustus. This is at the south end of the Forum Romanum, and a step is seen between this and the temple, which is in the Via...
Forum Romanum - Basilica Julia. Photographer: Unknown
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In this pasrt some of the walls built of travertine, and of the time of Julius Caesar, are seen, shewing also that the direction of this great hall was then from east to west, and some of the brick arches of the fourth century, or the modern imitation of them, in which the direction is from nort...
Forum Romanum - Cloaca Maxima (B.C. 615; Livii Hist., i. 38). Photographer: Unknown
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This part is under the south end of the Basilica Julia, and on the site of the Lake of Curtius, to drain which this great drain was made. The brick arch in the foreground is of the time of the early Empire, that behind it is one arch of the original vault, built of the large blocks of tufa of t...
Excavations, 1872 - Fragments of sculpture found in the Forum, and an inscription of L. Valerius Sept. Bassus, Prefect of the city, to the Emperors Gratianus, Valentianus and Theodosius. Photographer: Unknown