{"id":13065,"date":"2014-05-19T13:10:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=13065"},"modified":"2014-05-19T13:10:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:10:04","slug":"bits-and-pieces-on-the-circus-of-nero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2014\/05\/19\/bits-and-pieces-on-the-circus-of-nero\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits and pieces on the Circus of Nero"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I came across this picture here<\/a>, clearly of a model, of the “Circus of Caligula \/ Circus of Nero” on the Vatican.\u00a0 Whether the two circuses were indeed the same I do not know.\u00a0 But the model-maker was clearly aware of the construction of a large circular building on the spina of the circus in the Severan period, which tooks terribly out of place in the model.\u00a0 The ground level was artificially increased by something like 15 feet, and apparently the circular church of St Andrew had a basement level.<\/p>\n

Anyway I thought that I would share the image with you.\u00a0 I wonder where it comes from?<\/p>\n

\"Model<\/a>
Model of Nero’s circus, Vatican<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another interesting drawing from here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"circus_of_nero\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And a 1911 map of Rome by Platner from here<\/a>, showing the supposed location of the circus:\"800px-The_Topography_and_Monuments_of_Ancient_Rome_QNO\"<\/a>Note that I have now found an account of the modern excavations, by F.Magi, from which the “modern” plan of the circus derives, here<\/a>.[ref]John H. Humphrey, Roman Circuses: Arenas for Chariot Racing<\/em>, University of California Press, 1986, p.545 <\/a>f.; on p.683 <\/a>n.29 the article is given as F. Magi, “Il circo Vaticano in base alla piu recenti scoperte, il suo obelisco e i suoi ‘carceres’, Rendiconti della Pontificia Academia Romana di Archeologia<\/em> 45, 1972-3 [1974], 37-73.\u00a0 This also\u00a0 gives the “Castagnoli” reference: F. Castagnoli, “Il circo di Nerone in Vaticano”,\u00a0RendPontAcc<\/em> 32 (1960), 97-121. \u00a0 The Humphrey book can be read with difficulty at the UC Press website here<\/a>.[\/ref]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I came across this picture here, clearly of a model, of the “Circus of Caligula \/ Circus of Nero” on the Vatican.\u00a0 Whether the two circuses were indeed the same I do not know.\u00a0 But the model-maker was clearly aware of the construction of a large circular building on the spina of the circus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[432,434,1218,1723],"class_list":["post-13065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-circus-of-caligula","tag-circus-of-nero","tag-old-st-peters","tag-vatican-hill"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}