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Recent Excavations in Rome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Thomas Ashby
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Since the date of my last report upon this subject there has been little to chronicle in regard to the excavations in the Forum. The work of clearing the superficial strata which cover the remainder of the site of the Basilica Aemilia is proceeding somewhat slowly, and the level at which interesting discoveries may be expected has not yet been reached. Nor is the Forum Museum as yet ready. New discoveries have been confined to small excavations on the S.E. and the S.W. sides of the Arch of Titus, where large blocks of travertine, which originally belonged to some other building, and floors in concrete and opus spicatum, with foundations and drains below them, have been found, orientated more or less in correspondence with the older Sacra Via. Two parallel walls at a lower level, however, of large blocks of tufa may well be connected with the earlier temple of Jupiter Stator, which preceded the massive concrete foundation of the temple as we have it, which is orientated with the temple of Venus and Rome and the Arch of Titus.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , April 1908 , pp. 142 - 150
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1908

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page 143 note 1 lxviii. 16. παντς γ τ⋯ χωρoυ κεν0ν ρειν⋯ ντoς κατσκα⋯ε τoσ⋯τoν ὅσoν καχει, κα τν γoρν κ τoτoυ πεδτνν κατεσκευσε.

page 143 note 2 I think Costa in Rivista di Storia Antica, xi. 482, is quite right in pointing out that mons et locus should be taken to be a hendiadys (χωρoν ρεινόν, as Dio has it):this is why we have the singular sit egestus.Tantis operibus he too takes as a dative. He points out in detail that Boni's interpretation will not hold from the philological point of view, and suggests that the, mons should be sought further to the N.E. on the site of the temple of Trajan and the E. side of the Basilica Ulpia—whether rightly, I rather doubt.

page 144 note 1 This would of course bring its line considerably further N. than Mau is inclined to do.

page 148 note 1 See F. Hiller von Gaertringen, Thera I. Die Insel Thera in Altertum und Gegenwart, 258 sqq.

page 149 note 1 The inscriptions are on three sides of the altar: (1) θEωAΔA|ΔωANEθH (incomplete). (2) θEωAΔAΔω patera ΛIBANEωTH.(3) θEωAΔAΔω urceus AKPωPEITH.

page 149 note 2 Her name appears in the calendar, the Furrinalia being celebrated on July 25th.

page 150 note 1 The original provenance given by Amelung, Sculpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, is Otricoli, quoted from Clarac, 423, 748; but this statement, which does not occur elsewhere, e.g. in Visconti, Museo Pio Clementino, i. pl. 4 and text (where one would have expected it), is probably incorrect: for the statue is spoken of as already in the Quirinal gardens by Winckelmann, Mon. Ined. I. xiv. p. 14 (1st edition, 1767), whereas the Papal excavations at Otricoli began in 1775. (Guattani, Mon. Antichi Inediti per l‘anno 1784, 1.)