{"id":13415,"date":"2014-07-18T12:57:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T11:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=13415"},"modified":"2014-07-18T12:57:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T11:57:16","slug":"a-book-describing-the-ceiling-of-the-vanished-septizonium-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2014\/07\/18\/a-book-describing-the-ceiling-of-the-vanished-septizonium-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"A book describing the ceiling of the vanished Septizonium in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago Ste. Trombetti posted on Twitter <\/a>another couple of finds about the Septizonium.\u00a0 This was a facade in front of the Palatine hill in Rome, erected at the end of the Appian Way as a kind of formal entrance to the palaces, by Septimius Severus.\u00a0 It was pulled down in the 16th century, at which time only one end was still standing, and the materials used for various building projects.<\/p>\n

The first of these is a guidebook to the wonders of Rome, Francesco Albertini (1469-1530?), Mirabilia Romae<\/em>, 1520.[ref]Online as a scan of a microfilm at the BNF here<\/a>, and as a properly scanned book at the BSB here<\/a>.[\/ref]<\/p>\n

\"albertini_mirabilia_romae\"<\/a>A rough translation: “About the Septizonium, and some epitaphs.\u00a0 The Septizonium is between the palace and the church of St. Gregory, of which there are standing three orders of columns high, not far from the Circus Maximus.\u00a0 Near this they say is the place of the tomb of the emperor Severus the African: concerning whom see Julius Capitolinus writes in the life …. (?) … Spartianus says the same” (not sure about the rest).<\/p>\n

Another item<\/a> by Sebastiano Serlio, “Il Terzo Libro delle Antichit\u00e0 di Roma”, 1544, p.82.[ref]Online at BNF here<\/a>.[\/ref]\u00a0 This has a diagram of the vaulted inside of the roof of the Septizonium, and measurements of the extent of the building then standing, made by the author, so is very valuable indeed.\u00a0 The south end is at the top:<\/p>\n

\"serlio_terzo_libro\"<\/a>Finally – and nothing to do with the Septizonium – here<\/a> on Twitter is a drawing of the Meta Sudans fountain, also now vanished, by\u00a0 Giacomo Lauro, “Splendore dell’antica e moderna Roma”, 1641:<\/p>\n

\"giacomo_lauro_meta_sudans_1641\"<\/a>I think we may all be grateful to Mr. Trombetti for the time spent in these online archives, locating these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago Ste. Trombetti posted on Twitter another couple of finds about the Septizonium.\u00a0 This was a facade in front of the Palatine hill in Rome, erected at the end of the Appian Way as a kind of formal entrance to the palaces, by Septimius Severus.\u00a0 It was pulled down in the […]<\/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":[1122,1509],"class_list":["post-13415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-meta-sudans","tag-septizonium"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13415","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=13415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}