Notes on Some Recent Discoveries at Tivoli

Vincenzo Pacifici

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Notes on Some Recent Discoveries at Tivoli

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In the course of some operations recently undertaken to preserve the ancient Ponderarium at Tivoli from the infiltration of moisture, the torso of a statue of excellent workmanship was discovered lying on a marble pavement. Good results being thus assured, the Ministry of Public Instruction decided to continue excavations on the site. The work was carried out under the supervision of Professor Alessio Valle and Cavaliere Silla Rosa de Angelio, Honorary Inspector of Ancient Monuments at Tivoli, and was speedily crowned with success. There came to light, besides, two other fragments of the statue, another part of the bust and a head of different proportions; and it was also ascertained that the pavement, made of slabs of white and violet-coloured marble, belonged to a rectangular chamber which showed traces of an apse let into one of the shorter sides and which was in an excellent state of preservation.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 10 , November 1920 , pp. 90 - 95

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/295792 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © Vincenzo Pacifici 1920. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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^{page 90 note 1} The article, as printed, is a translation from the Italian.

^{page 90 note 2} In the course of the work the arm of another statue was also discovered. To judge by the proportions, it is quite possible to suppose that the head mentioned could have belonged to the statue of which this arm was a part.

^{page 91 note 1} The photograph here reproduced (fig. 8) is so far misleading that it conveys the false impression that the head and the torso belong to the same statue. This is not so. The torso may be the remains of a Hercules tunicatus like the relief mentioned on p. 94. The head, on the other hand, may be that of Augustus or of some member of the imperial family.

^{page 92 note 1} Engraved on the front of the tables of the Ponderarium, which rest on graceful supports, ornamented with torches and clubs carved in relief, is the following inscription : M . VARENVS . ET . M . LARTIDI . L . DIPHILVS . MAG . HERC . DE . S . P . F . C. C.I.L. xiv, 3687, and Not. Scavi. 1883, 86.

^{page 92 note 2} An inscription found at Nola mentions one Claras, who was a fellow freedman of Diphilus, C.I.L. x, 1333, M . VARENVS . ET . M . LARTIDI . L . CLARVS. It bears the consular date of the year 21 B.C., a fact of the highest importance for the dating of the buildings at Tibur. cf. G. Gatti. Notizie di recenti ritrovamenti di antichità in Bull. Arch. Com. di Roma (1902), p. 210.

^{page 92 note 3} One of them is complete and runs as follows :— VARENAE . Q . F . | MAIORI . | DIPHILVS . L . | L . D . S . C . the other is restored as follows by Borsari:—m . Lart | IDIO . SEX | f … . PR . Diphil | vs. l . d . s . | c .

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^{page 93 note 1} Contini, e Ligorio, , Iconographia Villae tiburtinae, Roma, 1751Google Scholar.

^{page 93 note 2} Kircher, Vetus et novum Latium, p. 190.

^{page 94 note 1} A. del Re, Antichita tiburtiná, 6. Bibl. Vatic … Fonds Barberini.

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^{page 94 note 5} Nat. Hist. xxxiv. 19, 93.

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^{page 95 note 1} xiv, 86 seq.

^{page 95 note 2} Noct.Att. ix, 14.

^{page 95 note 3} Bell. Civ. 24.

^{page 95 note 4} Aug. 72.

^{page 95 note 5} Martial,i, 12. Silius Italicus mentions the temple in iv, 224, and Propertius in ii, 21.

^{page 95 note 6} Silvae, i, 3.

^{page 95 note 7} Nibby, Analisi; De Chaupy, Maison d'Horace.

^{page 95 note 8} C.I.L. xiv, 3664, 3666, 3667, 3668, 3669, 3678, 3685, 3686, 3687.

^{page 95 note 9} Canina, Edifici; R. del Re, loc. cit.

^{page 95 note 10} H. C. Bradshaw, Praeneste. A study for its restoration, in P.B.S.R. vol. ix.

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