Forum Romanum - Marble wall of the Comitium in 1874. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
On the wall to the left are seen the three animals prepared for sacrifice (the boar, the ram, and the bull). On the right hand wall, part of the procession going up to the Emperor Hadrian, with the tablets of their debts to be cancelled and burnt, some of them thrown in a heap on the ground. The...
Excavations - Architectural details - Base of a large column of the fourth century, time of the Emperor Constantius. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Found in the Forum Romanum, and now placed at the entrance to the Palaces of the Caesars, with sculptures representing the three animals for sacrifice, the same as on the wall of the Comitium.'
Forum Romanum - Podium of the Temple of Castor and Pollux, or the Dioscuri, in 1874. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
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
Scope & Content:
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...