Rome

ROME

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Museum of Roman Civilisation. Many items are copies of things retained in their original locations, but a fascinating overview.

: Ready to go in

: Model of ancient Rome

: Gaius Julius Caesar – who else?

: Octavian bids us farewell as we go through his gate

: Octavian as he became Augustus

: Said to be Livia, Augustus’ wife

: Family of Drusus – Copy of panel on the Ara Pacis

: Model of Colosseum, reconstructed

: Our guide, Patrizia, explains the Colosseum

: Model of gladiator school, reconstructed. Time of Domitian AD 81-96

: Winged Victory – Brescia 1st century AD

: Winged Victory – Brescia 1st century AD

: Archway reconstruction

: Panels, including Trajan welcoming Hercules

: Model of Hadrian’s villa, Tivoli

: Trajan

: Trajan

: Hadrian – Trampling a defeated enemy province, personified as a woman

: Victory of Calvatone – AD 161-169

: Relief of procession – Constantine/Constantius?

: Legion standard (model) – Portraits of Septimius Severus and Caracalla

: Roman artillery piece

: Model of a triumph

: Plaster cast of panel from Trajan’s column

: Roman education

: Reconstruction of an aristocratic house on Via Sacra 530-520BC

Rome walkabout

: Teatro Marcello – Not the average Roman theatre…

: Temple of Apollo

: Teatro Marcello with apartments on top

: At the Portico Ottavia – The entry to the Jewish quarter

: Teatro Marcello – A sideways view

: Colourful houses and beautiful plaster on top of Roman foundations

: Portico Ottavia – The power look

: Roman concrete!

: Portico Ottavia – Built by Augustus in honour of his sister Octavia

: Portico Ottavia, Temple of Augustus, Teatro Marcello

: Recycling Roman buildings

: Roman street – 21st or 1st century?

: Market in Piazza dei Fiori

: Oil, olives and honey

: Piazza Navona

: Typical Roman architecture (not ancient!)

: Pantheopn – First built by Agrippa in 27BC, rebuilt after the fire by Hadrian AD 126

: Pantheon

: Pantheon

: The famous Pantheon dome – Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon’s dome is still the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome.-

: Inside the Pantheon

: From inside the Pantheon looking out

: Pantheon – inside the portico

: Pantheon

: Pantheon – side

: Pantheon – some of the marble cladding

: Obelisk and elephant

: Temple of Hadrian

: Temple of Hadrian

: Column of Marcus Aurelius (not Trajan’s). Completed by AD 193

: Carabineri poshed up

: Rome shopping mall

: Obelisk – One of the many brought back from Egypt

: The Trevi Fountain – Built later, the Roman connection is that Marcus Agrippa was an important builder of Rome’s water supply

Ostia Antica, Rome’s former seaport

: The main road we walked in on

: Fab road slabs

: Arches amongs the tombs

: ‘Net’ pattern tile/brick work

: General view

: Bricks and mortar

: Arches

: A street parallel to the main street

: Buildings

: Progressing…

: Rear of the main street

: More buildings

: Corner of Street of the Vigiles (the cops)

: Street of the Vigiles

: Herrigbone floor pattern

: Baths mosaic

: Baths – Sadly, best mosaics were covered up to protect them from the recent bad weather

: Forum

: A glance backwards

: Hypocaust!

: Archways

: Four admirers

: Lone column

: Rear of the theatre

: Street in front of theatre

: Entrance archway, theatre

: Theatre

: Square of the Corporations and temple

: Decoration along edge of theatre wall

: Mosaic in shop floors, Square of the Corporations

: Mosaic in shop floors, Square of the Corporations

: Mosaic in shop floors, Square of the Corporations

: Mosaic in shop floors, Square of the Corporations

: Mosaic in shop floors, Square of the Corporations

: View from temple towards theatre

: View from temple towards shops

: Temple steps

: Mosaic in shop floors, Square of the Corporations

: Self with (copy of) altar of Romulus and Remus

: Peek into the Mithreum

: Capitolium

: View of forum from Capitolium

: View of forum from Capitolium

: Random Corinthian column with acanthus leaves

: Tubuli! Wall box tile flues to heat the bath walls

: At last! The pub. More of a pre-restaurant (aka thermopolium)

: Mine’s a pint! Inside the thermopolium

: Behind the counter

: Panorama toward the admin buildings

: View from above the thermopolium

: Wall mosaic, Villa of Perseus

: Floor mosaic in the baths of the coachmen

Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli

: Ready to go

: Telling us all about it

: Entry

: Lovely wall!

: And the other way

: The Pecile pool

: Pecile – A double portico which once enclosed a garden with a large pool, inspired by the Stoa Poikile in Athens.

: Baths complex

: Columns outside the baths complex

: Imperial palace

: Imperial palace buildings

: Steps down to the underground passageways

: Praetorian barracks

: Entering the large vaulted room, Great Baths

: Groin-vaulted room, Great Baths

: Vaulted room, Great Baths

: Wonderous survival, Great Baths

: Remains of decoration

: Artistic view of the canopus

: Canopus, designed to recall the Canopus canal, an arm of the Nile River between Alexandria and Abukir.

: Serapeum

: Glimpse into the Praetorian barracks

: Great Baths

: View from imperial buildings

: Imperial buildings showing construction method (concrete, etc)

: Walkway with beautiful trees outside the pelice

: View including area still to be excavated

: View with Temple of Venus

: Temple of Venus

: Maritime Theatre

Imperial Forums

: A nice building on the way to the forum…

: Victor Emmanuel and the ‘wedding cake’ monument

: A contrast Renaissance palazzo

: Church, Roman Imperium and Italian reunification in one photo

: Don’t think much of these modern chariots

: A couple of local Romans

: Close-up of Trajan’s column

: So, Trajan, he was this emperor, okay?

: Trajan’s column

: Trajan’s markets

: Forum of Caesar (Forum Iulium)

: Forum of Caesar (Forum Iulium)

: Trajan’s markets

: Me and G.J.Caesar

: Forum of Caesar (Forum Iulium)

: Curia (Senate House)

: Forum of Augustus

: Via dei Fori Imperiali

: THE forum (Forum Romanum)

: THE forum (Forum Romanum)

: Forurum Romanum – nice steps

: Basilica Aemilia (outline)

: Arch of Septimus Severus

: Basilica Julia (foreground) Temple of Saturn (at rear)

: Me + Temple of Saturn

: Column of Phocus – late, late – AD 608

: Curia (Senate building)

: Curia (Senate building)

: Tassel on the end of a toga!

: Lovely toga folds (inside Curia)

: Mosaic of trading ship in the Curia

: Cloaca Maxima or the Big Sewer

: Entrance to the Cloaca Maxima or the Big Sewer

: Horrea Agrippiana – Granary, warehouse, market

: Slabs and steps

: Tiles and concrete

: View back to Vestals temple

: Slabs – oh, yes!

: Temple of Castor and Pollux

: Forum Romanum, general view

: Basilica Julia

: Forum Romanum, general view

: Temple of Saturn

: Arch of Septimus Severus – Note door in the side!

: Paving

: Marble paving

: Marble paving

: Regia, site of home of the early kings of Rome

: Temple of Vesta

: Temple of Vesta

Palatine Hill

: Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine

: Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine

: Arch of Titus and Vespasian

: Into the underground system

: Gardens on the Palatine

: Domus Augustus (I think)

: Domus Augustus (I think)

: Houses from very early Rome approx 6/700 BC

: Houses from very early Rome approx 6/700 BC

: Palatine residences

: Palatine residences

: Yellow marble column

: Palatine overview

: Beautiful umbrella pine

: Early floor tiling

: Hippodrome of Domitian

: Imperial residence

: View towards Colosseum

Colosseum

: Arch of Constantine

: Colosseum and Roman traffic

: Gladiator training school

: Colosseum, more formally

: Inside the arches

: Inside the arches

: Passageway

: The classic view of the stage area and underground passages

: Bricks and tiles

: The view from above

: General view

: View over to the Temple of Venus and Rome

: Tourist poster view!

: Miles Romanus (tourist version)

: Through the arches

: Vomitorium (escape passageway)

: Colosseum concrete

: Contrasting colours

: In the Imperator’s box

: Section

Capitoline

: View from the top of the steps

: The famous equestrian statue! Replica of the the Marcus Aurelius bronze. The original is inside the museum

: Inner courtyard of the Capitoline Museum

: A frieze I liked (represenation of Dacia?)

: Part of the colossus of Constatine – looks a bit soulless…

: Constantine’s finger

: Constatine’s toes

: Relief of Marcus Aurelius

: Museum staircase (Michelangelo)

: The original bronze of M.Aurelius

: Bronze of Constantine’s head, Capitoline Museum, Rome. Author photo

: The Capitoline She-Wolf with Romulus and Remus. Thought to have been an ancient bronze sculpture from the 5th/6th century B.C. There are two issues about the dates. (1) The wolf and the infants were made at separate periods. (2) There is a millennium between the possible dates for the creation of the wolf. But nice statue…

: General view

: Remains of Temple of Jupiter

: Pre-Roman artefacts

: Remains of Temple of Jupiter

: Pre-Roman artefacts

: Remains of Temple of Jupiter

: Lovely sandals!

: Exquisite fabric folding, but shame about the head and arms.

: Sarcophagus frieze

: Lists of consuls (reconstruction)

: Underneath the Capitoline, in the Roman archives

: Arches and concrete

: Surviving decoration

: Arches and concrete

: Minerva (Athena)

: Me and Forum Romanum

: Forum Romanum by itself

: Mars

: Corridor of statues

: Fortuna

: Diana

: General view

: Emperors

: The (famous) Dying Gaul

: Up Michelangelo’s steps

: Rare surviving insulae (apartment blocks/tenements) at the foot of Capitoline Hill

: Surviving insulae, foot of Capitoline Hill

: Surviving insulae, foot of Capitoline Hill

: Surviving insulae, foot of Capitoline Hill

My Rome walkabout Photos from my free afternoon

: Side alley on Capitoline – bridge between buildings

: Tarpeian Rock Street

: Tarpeian Rock, the one they threw criminals off…

: Scooters and the forum – there’s a book title!

: A modern Roman street – Modern by Ancient Roman standards…

: Look up and you see lovely things

: Circus Maximus

: Circus Maximus

: Circus Maximus

: Circus Maximus – A demonstration getting itself ready

: Temple of Hercules – In the Forum Boarium, site of ancient Roman cattle market

: Temple of Hercules

: Temple of Portunus – In the Forum Boarium, site of ancient Roman cattle market

: The Tiber

: Roman bridge from 76BC

: Back of the Trajan markets

Caracella Baths The Baths of Caracalla were the largest thermae in the world when completed in AD 217. They were functional for over 300 years.

: Massive, high walls

: Early morning

: Early morning

: The huge central hall

: Mosaics

: Archway with mosaics

: Beautiful mosaics

: Bridge into archway

: Beautiful mosaics

: So many archways!

: Big

: Very big

: Parts of wall mosaics

: Marble decoration that escaped the ages

: Mosaics close up

: Pines and ruins – beautiful

: Romans like very, very big.

: Impressive even a long way away

: Site of stadion

: Escaped parakeets above stadion

: Brave street entertainers in road outside

Rome last day

: On the way back to Rome from Cannae

: On the way back to Rome from Cannae

: Arriving in Rome

: A glimpse of the fabulous Aurelian walls

: Waiting outside the St Sebastian Catacombs

: St Sebastian Catacombs garden

: Priestly guide at St Sebastian Catacombs – Sadly no photos allowed in the catacombs

: Via Appia – Appian Way

: Appian Way

: Circus of Maxentius

: Tomb of Caecilia Metella

: Castrum Caetani

: Circus of Maxentius

: Porta San Sebastiano, formerly Porta Appia

: Porta San Sebastiano, formerly Porta Appia

: Porta San Sebastiano, formerly Porta Appia

: The Aurelian Walls, close-up and personal

: The Aurelian Walls

: The Aurelian Walls

: The Aurelian Walls

: End of walls and back through Mussolini’s modern arches

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