{"id":23965,"date":"2020-04-25T20:46:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T19:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=23965"},"modified":"2020-04-25T20:46:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T19:46:27","slug":"more-old-photographs-of-the-meta-sudans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2020\/04\/25\/more-old-photographs-of-the-meta-sudans\/","title":{"rendered":"More old photographs of the Meta Sudans"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many, many old photographs of the Arch of Constantine, the Colosseum, and the now-vanished Meta Sudans, the fountain that stood outside it and was demolished by Mussolini.\u00a0 A few more have come my way this week.\u00a0 For most of them I am indebted to the amazing Roma Ieri Oggi<\/a> site and its twitter feed @romaierioggi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The first is from 1930<\/a>, and shows an unusual view:<\/p>\n

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(I do wish he would not vandalise the photo with a watermark).<\/p>\n

Helpfully he has zoomed in on the Meta Sudans:<\/p>\n

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Another item<\/a> is from some amazing aerial photographs from ca 1926 by Walter Mittelholzer.\u00a0 These may be found here<\/a>.\u00a0 This one shows the area that we are interested in, although sadly the Meta Sudans is but a bump:<\/p>\n

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Another photograph via @PhotoVintageFr<\/a> depicts the Meta Sudans from the opposite side:<\/p>\n

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While this one<\/a> shows it peeking through the Arch of Constantine:<\/p>\n

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Finally there is this one, from here<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s from 1850, and taken from high up in the Colosseum:<\/p>\n

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Really somebody ought to make a 3-D model of the structure as it was at this time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are many, many old photographs of the Arch of Constantine, the Colosseum, and the now-vanished Meta Sudans, the fountain that stood outside it and was demolished by Mussolini.\u00a0 A few more have come my way this week.\u00a0 For most of them I am indebted to the amazing Roma Ieri Oggi site and its twitter […]<\/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":[1122],"class_list":["post-23965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-meta-sudans"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965","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=23965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}