{"id":14503,"date":"2015-05-04T23:50:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T22:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=14503"},"modified":"2015-05-04T23:50:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T22:50:24","slug":"a-couple-more-photographs-of-the-meta-sudans-and-base-of-the-colossus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2015\/05\/04\/a-couple-more-photographs-of-the-meta-sudans-and-base-of-the-colossus\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple more photographs of the Meta Sudans and base of the Colossus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A couple more interesting pictures appeared on Twitter tonight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first of these was posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ste_trombetti\/status\/595292709084073985\/photo\/1\">Ste Trombetti,<\/a> and shows the Arch of Titus in 1848 (!).\u00a0 The photo is in the Getty archive, and was taken\u00a0by Count Jean-Fran\u00e7ois-Charles-Andr\u00e9 Flach\u00e9ron (French, 1813-1883).\u00a0 Through the arch, the Meta Sudans is visible, in its truncated 19th century state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here it is:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14505\" style=\"width: 599px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Flacheron_1848.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14505\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Flacheron_1848.jpg\" alt=\"Arch of Titus, Meta Sudans, and Colosseum. Flacheron, 1848. \" width=\"599\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arch of Titus, Meta Sudans, and Colosseum. Flacheron, 1848.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next item is a photograph which was found by searching on &#8220;Collina della Velia&#8221;, i.e. the little Velian hill.\u00a0 This hill was completely levelled by Mussolini, in building the Via del Foro Imperiali.\u00a0 This old photograph shows the black base of the Colossus of Nero, which existed until Mussolini removed it.\u00a0 The black item below the Colosseum is the base.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I found it on Flickr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/55364579@N05\/galleries\/72157630956328656\/\">here<\/a>. Here it is:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14506\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/collina_della_velia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14506\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/collina_della_velia.jpg\" alt=\"Collina della Velia.  Note the base of the Colossus of Nero.\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collina della Velia. Note the base of the Colossus of Nero.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally let&#8217;s include an aerial view of the whole region, from a 2009 exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/imperial_fora_of_rome\/3757103396\/in\/gallery-55364579@N05-72157630956328656\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Click on it to get a very large photo!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aerial_view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14507\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aerial_view-300x127.jpg\" alt=\"aerial_view\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The base of the Colossus is in the shade of the Colosseum, but I think\u00a0the rectangle\u00a0can be made out if you zoom:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14508\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aerial_view_zoom.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14508\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aerial_view_zoom-300x291.png\" alt=\"Zoomed area of the aerial photo of the base of the Colossus of Nero\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoomed area of the aerial photo of the base of the Colossus of Nero<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There seem to be very few photographs of this obscure item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple more interesting pictures appeared on Twitter tonight. The first of these was posted by Ste Trombetti, and shows the Arch of Titus in 1848 (!).\u00a0 The photo is in the Getty archive, and was taken\u00a0by Count Jean-Fran\u00e7ois-Charles-Andr\u00e9 Flach\u00e9ron (French, 1813-1883).\u00a0 Through the arch, the Meta Sudans is visible, in its truncated 19th century [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[450,453,454,1122,1730],"class_list":["post-14503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-collina-della-velia","tag-colosseum","tag-colossus-of-nero","tag-meta-sudans","tag-velian-hill"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503","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=14503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}