{"id":16549,"date":"2016-12-31T15:06:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T15:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=16549"},"modified":"2016-12-31T15:06:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T15:06:02","slug":"the-base-of-the-colossus-next-to-the-colosseum-in-1920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2016\/12\/31\/the-base-of-the-colossus-next-to-the-colosseum-in-1920\/","title":{"rendered":"The base of the Colossus, next to the Colosseum, in 1920"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">The Roma Ieri Oggi site is a vast resource of old and wonderful photographs of Rome.\u00a0 It&#8217;s rather a pity that these are being embedded in an on-site &#8220;viewer&#8221;, to make it hard to download the things.\u00a0 But in them we see Rome before Mussolini made his necessary but destructive changes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Today he posted a very useful item, showing something which I have long wanted to see.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a photograph of the Colosseum, from 1920, from an unusual angle:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/colossus_pedestal_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16550\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/colossus_pedestal_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"702\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Today much of the stuff on the right is gone, demolished by Mussolini and replaced by the Via del foro imperiali.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">But notice the platform, against the wall to the right of the Colosseum:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16551\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/colossus_pedestal_zoom_1920.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16551\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/colossus_pedestal_zoom_1920-1024x455.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pedestal of the Colossus of Nero. Rome, 1920. Via Roma Ieri Oggi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\">This is &#8211; this must be &#8211; the base of the colossal statue of Nero, from which the Flavian Amphitheatre drew its name of &#8220;Colosseum&#8221;.\u00a0 The statue was 100 foot tall, and was erected outside\u00a0of Nero&#8217;s\u00a0Golden House.\u00a0 Of course it is long gone &#8211; it was converted into a statue of Sol, after Nero&#8217;s fall, and resited here, and was melted down at some unknown date thereafter.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The base also is gone today, demolished by Mussolini; but there it is in the photograph; and we owe Roma Ieri Oggi a great debt for allowing us to see it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roma Ieri Oggi site is a vast resource of old and wonderful photographs of Rome.\u00a0 It&#8217;s rather a pity that these are being embedded in an on-site &#8220;viewer&#8221;, to make it hard to download the things.\u00a0 But in them we see Rome before Mussolini made his necessary but destructive changes. 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