Rambles in Rome: An Archæological and Historical Guide to the Museums, Galleries, Villas, Churches, and Antiquities of Rome and the CampagnaForbes, S. Russell
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Rambles in Rome: An Archæological and Historical Guide to the Museums, Galleries, Villas, Churches, and Antiquities of Rome and the Campagna
Forbes, S. Russell
Art -- Rome; Rome (Italy) -- Guidebooks; Rome -- Antiquities
Page 129. _Chiaramonti Corridor._--_For_ 635 _read_ 636. _Omit_ 416,
Augustus as a Youth. _Insert_ 372_a_, A Fragment from the Parthenon, by
Phidias. _Omit_ 112, Venus of Cnidos. _For_ 484 _read_ 483, Cupid. 639
_read_ Sœmia.
Page 130. _Braccio Nuovo._--_For_ 92 _read_ 38B. _For_ 96A _read_ 97A.
_Insert_ 112, a fine bust of Juno as queen of heaven.
Page 136. Torlonia Museum closed to the public.
Page 140, line 19, _for_ by the new road _read_ Via Luciano Manara.
Page 147. BORGHESE GALLERY.--Permission necessary. To be obtained at
the palace, on the days the gallery is opened, before 1 P.M.
Page 160. KIRCHERIAN MUSEUM.--The objects have been arranged in cases
on the walls instead of down the centre of the rooms. _Third
Room._--_For_ at end on left _read_ in front of the window.
Page 175. CAPITOLINE MUSEUM.--36. _Omit_ whose bust it now supports;
_insert_ a porphyry fragment. 41. _For_ Antoninus Pius _read_
Claudius. 49, 50. _After_ Pius _read_ destroyed in 1665 by Alexander
VI.
Page 179. _Omit_ 23. Mercury.
Page 180. _Terra-cotta Room._--_Omit_ a large jar, _down to_ urn.
Page 181. _Omit_ the case, line 21, _down to_ Pia.
Page 183. _Courtyard._--_For_ 2 and 3 _read_ 4 and 6; _for_ 3 and 18
_read_ 5 and 7; _for_ 7 _read_ 9; _for_ 8 and 13 _read_ 18 and 10.
_Lower Corridor._--_For_ 3 _read_ 4; _for_ 5 _read_ 8; _for_ 7 _read_
18; _for_ 8 _read_ 21; _for_ 10 _read_ 23; _for_ 14 _read_ 35; _for_
15 _read_ 36; _for_ 16 _read_ 37; _for_ 17 _read_ 38; _for_ 18.
Porphyry _read_ 39. Original.
No. 3. A votive altar dedicated to the imperial house, on the left
side of which is a personification of the Via Appia reclining on a
wheel, similar to Trajan's Relief on the Arch of Constantine.
No. 6. Egyptian statuette, with the cartouch of Rameses II., found on
Via Nazionale. The base upon which it stands is inscribed to Fabius
Cilone, prefect of Rome under Septimius Severus, who had performed the
annual sacrifice to Hercules at the Ara Maxima, at the entrance to the
Circus Maximus. No. 13 is a companion inscription, a circular vase
offered by Catius Sabinus, prefect of Rome, who performed the annual
sacrifice at the great altar of Hercules. It was found at the back of
S. Maria in Cosmedin.
No. 17. Inscription to Hercules the leader of the Muses by the Consul
M. F. Nobilior, 189 B.C., from the temple which stood in the Portico
of Philip, now S. Ambrogio.
Nos. 2 and 3 in the courtyard are the two Egyptian lions from the
Temple of Isis, which in the sixteenth century were placed at the foot
of the ascent to the Capitol, and removed here in 1885.
Nos. 13 and 14. Two columns from the same temple found in 1883.
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