A photo of the Meta Sudans from the Palatine

Posted on by Roger Pearse

Here’s yet another picture of the conical stub of the now vanished Roman fountain, the Meta Sudans, in front of the Colosseum. It was posted online here, where it is described as “late 19th century”.

I wish we had more 20th century photographs of the Meta Sudans.  There ought to be legions of them.

 

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  1. ROME – Update new research and new archival materials on the Meta sudans, 1906 to 2021.

    1). ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2022. ROMA DI MUSSOLINI – Arch. Guido Carreras, Sistemazione monumentale a ricordo della fondazione dell’impero per la valorizzazione della zona imperiale [Tavv. 1 bis 7? / 1930-37]; in: ROMA CAPITALE / ARCHIVIO STORICO CAPITOLINI (05/03/2022). S.v., Via dell’ Impero; in: Pianta di Guglielmo Gatti (1930-32?) & Raffaele De Vico & (1930-33?). https://wp.me/pbMWvy-2wq

    2). ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA E RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2020: Roma, vedute della vita nei Fori Imperiali e nel Foro Romano a colori (fine Ottocento e inizio Novecento). Facebook / varie raccolte (2020). https://wp.me/pbMWvy-zs

    3). ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2022. Roma – Klaus Stefan Freyberger – “Lo studio che cambierebbe la storia: il Colosseo costruito 100 anni prima di quel che pensiamo”; in: fanpage.it & ANSA (07-08/11/2022). S.v., Klaus Stefan Freyberger & Christian Zitzl (2016). S.v., Prof.ssa Clementina Panella, Roma. Pendici nord orientali del Palatino – scavo archeologico (1986-2022). https://wp.me/pbMWvy-3nQ

    Translation into English on the research materials cited above in relationship to the Meta Sudans, 1906 to 2021.

    1). ROME – Fascist Systemization – New archival plans of the area of the Colosseum valley to the Circus Maximus, ca. 1930 to 1937?

    2). ROME – Views of the Roman Imperial Fora in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; and visitors and children playing and running around the base of the Meta Sudans in 1906.

    3). ROME – Digital reconstruction showing the view of the Colosseum valley and the Meta Sudans (from the top of the Colosseum) in the early 3rd century A.D., in: Project Metropolis / Rome © 2021-22 faber courtial. GbR (04/2022).

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