![]() ![]() The Senate and People of Rome dedicate this arch to theĭeified Titus Vespasian Augustus, son of the deified Original portion of a monument from the reconstructed portion.ĭIVI VESPASIANI F(ilio) / VESPASIANO AUGUSTO Pioneered a technique of restoration that readily distinguishes the Stone for missing sections of the original Pentelic marble, Valadier Restoration, which involved a complete rebuilding of the arch (with theĪrch of Trajan in Beneventum as a model). Giuseppe Valadier, the leading Italian architect of his day who alsoĭesigned one of the buttresses to shore up the Colosseum, directed this To the restoration that Pius VII carried out in beginning in 1822. The inscription on the attic of the Colosseum-side refers Trace the whereabouts of these objects some five centuries later. The seven-branched menorah, and to its right the heavy table for the ![]() Josephus below before they became the booty of Rome. The holiest objects from the Temple of Jerusalem, as described by Palatine-side depicts a scene from Titus's triumph, and includes two of The relief-sculpture carved inside the arch on the Josephus's history of the Jewish Wars, the fullest and most harrowingĪccount of Rome's destruction of an enemy's capital. Titus's, and Constantine's-the one in honor of the deified Titus (on theĬenter coffer inside his arch, see him carried aloft by an eagle) is byįar the most elegant, even as the surviving literary record provides, in Of the three triumphal arches remaining in Rome-Severus's, Ancient Library Sources (from Peter Aicher, Rome Alive: A Source Guide to the Ancient City, vol.The foundations of the arch stand on the pavement of the Clivus Palatinus ( q.v.), and therefore it has been thought by some that the arch stood originally farther north and was moved when the temple of Venus and Roma was built (CR 1902, 286 Mitt. The frieze and inscription are therefore preserved only on the side towards the Colosseum. The injury to the structure was so great that it was taken down in 1822 and rebuilt by Valadier, who restored a large part of the attic and the outer half of both piers in travertine. In the Middle Ages it formed part of the stronghold of the Frangipani, a chamber was constructed in the upper part of the archway, and the level of the roadway was lowered considerably, exposing the travertine foundations. The theory that it was erected under Nerva and Trajan is improbable (CJ 1915-16, 131-141). ![]() There is no mention of this arch in ancient literature, though it may be alluded to by Martial ( de spect. (1906), 227-262, but not finished and dedicated until after his death (CIL VI.945). ![]() 45-47.Įrected in honour of Titus and in commemoration of the siege of Jerusalem in summa Sacra via (Haterii relief, CIL VI.19151 Mem. Arcus Titiįrom Samuel Ball Platner, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, rev. Titus also had a triumphal arch, which was erected at the curved (eastern) end of the Circus Maximus. The arch stood at a significant spot: it spanned the Sacred Way, over which Titus' triumph progressed and it was also at the intersection with the Clivus Palatinus, the road rising up the Palatine to the facade of the palace of Titus' brother, the emperor Domitian. One of the two large reliefs on the sides of the arch shows Titus riding his chariot in triumph over the Jews the panel opposite shows Roman soldiers carrying the treasures from the Temple in Jerusalem during the triumphal parade. Thus, in the inscription he is called “divus” (“divine”) and under the arch is a relief showing an eagle carrying a bust of Titus to the heavens. This well-preserved single arch, made of white marble, was erected by Domitian (A.D. Institute for Advanced Techology in the Humanities ![]()
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