Transcriber's notes:
The following typographical errors have been corrected: Page v, "Romana" changed to "Romano" (by Giulio Romano, Francesco Penni,) Page 59, "Bulletino" changed to "Bullettino" (in footnote [38]: See Henzen, _Bullettino dell' Instituto_, 1863,) Page 91, "Receuil" changed to "Recueil" (in footnote [51]: Leon Renier: _Recueil des diplomes militaires_) Page 120, "Ardentina" changed to "Ardeatina" (S. Petronilla on the Via Ardeatina) Page 131, "Venedetto" changed to "Benedetto" (the master-mason Benedetto Drei, whose drawing,) Page 147, "Winckelman" two times changed to "Winckelmann" (Fea and Winckelmann assert and Winckelmann attributes their rapid decay) Page 185, "in" changed to "is" (the urn of Agrippina is kept in the courtyard) Page 208, "Emmanuele" changed to "Emanuele" (southwest corner of the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele) Page 273, "astrinum" changed to "ustrinum" (it was an _astrinum_ where corpses were cremated) Page 314, "Bulletino" changed to "Bullettino" (in footnote [148]: _Bullettino di archeologia cristiana_) Page 327, "Nicolas" changed to "Nicholas" (from the time of Pope Nicholas I.) Page 369, "Cerceo" changed to "Circeo" (defeats the Saracens off Cape Circeo) Page 373, "Guilio" changed to "Giulio" (di Papa Giulio, 254;)
[Illustration: BATTLE BETWEEN CONSTANTINE AND MAXENTIUS
(_From a painting by Giulio Romano, Francesco Penni and Raffaellino del Colle_)]
PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN ROME
BY
RODOLFO LANCIANI AUTHOR OF "ANCIENT ROME IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT DISCOVERIES"
_PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED_
[Illustration: The Riverside Press]
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY =The Riverside Press, Cambridge= 1893
Copyright, 1892, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
_All rights reserved._
_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A._ Electrotyped and Printed by H.O. Houghton & Co.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
CHAPTER I. THE TRANSFORMATION OF ROME FROM A PAGAN INTO A CHRISTIAN CITY 1
CHAPTER II. PAGAN SHRINES AND TEMPLES 51
CHAPTER III. CHRISTIAN CHURCHES 107
CHAPTER IV. IMPERIAL TOMBS 168
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani
- 2: Peter discovered at the time of paul v
- 3: Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani
- 4: 37
- 5: 1823 from an old print 152TOMBSTONE OF S
- 6: Instances of Roman nobles who were Christians
- 7: Near the entrance from the Via Salaria
- 8: Illustration Tablet of Acilius Glabrio
- 9: 32 tells how Pomponia Graecina
- 10: He evidently means Bruttius Praesens
- 11: A Christian page like Alexamenos
- 12: In a tomb of the Via Severiana
- 13: Illustration Lamp of Annius Ser
- 14: Because instinctu divinitatis by the will of God
- 15: From the Catacombs of Priscilla 1888
- 16: 17 Illustration Ancient Candelabrum in the church of SS
- 17: Illustration The Templum Sacrae Urbis SS
- 18: And that of Beno alone to the paintings of S
- 19: Illustration The Shrine and Altar of Mercurius Sobrius
- 20: Which was erected under Clement VIII
- 21: Illustration Kantharos in the Court of St
- 22: When three mensae ponderariae
- 23: Refers to these deplorable libations
- 24: There were also private horrea
- 25: He says that Gregory appeared thrice to Sabinianus
- 26: The Acts of Perpetua relate a legend on this subject
- 27: In the Miscellanea archeologica
- 28: In the Bullettino di archeologia cristiana
- 29: The list includes The Apollo and Artemis driving a quadriga
- 30: A patera ornamented with ears of corn
- 31: SANGVINE nomen animalis ET
- 32: From the contents of its favissae
- 33: Illustration Portrait Bust of Person cured at Nemi
- 34: Rises from the valley of the Cremera
- 35: Illustration A Pelasgic hieron
- 36: Whom the people named Aius Loquens or Locutius
- 37: Illustration Pillar commemorating the Ludi Saeculares
- 38: And its feeding springs were led into the euripus
- 39: President of the Quindecemviri
- 40: Which took place on the Capitol and the Palatine
- 41: The area is lined with stone cippi
- 42: The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus
- 43: On the side towards the Piazza della Consolazione
- 44: The original of which was hung somewhere in the Capitolium
- 45: Near the statue of Jupiter Africus September 5
- 46: We discovered two kynokephaloi or kerkopithekoi
- 47: The kynokephaloi of Necthor heb
- 48: Called the Poseidonion Greek POSEIDONION
- 49: Supra templum divi Augusti ponte transmisso
- 50: Illustration Statue of Semo Sancus
- 51: Visconti Bullettino Comunale
- 52: Jordan Osservazioni sul tempio di Giove Capitolino
- 53: Lanciani Bullettino Comunale
- 54: And Ecclesia Pudentiana have almost fallen into oblivion
- 55: Defender of the church of Pudens
- 56: The tablinum becomes an apse
- 57: A body of men invaded the schola
- 58: Petronilla on the Via Ardeatina
- 59: Pope Damasus determined to check the evil
- 60: If we consider that Hegesippos came to Rome to investigate
- 61: And the Platonia ad Catacumbas
- 62: Peter's execution inter duas metas
- 63: The account published by Armellini 72 proves that S
- 64: According to the Liber Pontificalis
- 65: Illustration Nave of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura
- 66: As the fourth or Romana was for women
- 67: To whom he was offering a model of the basilica
- 68: The competition was won by Carlo Maderno
- 69: Fea to the variations in temperature
- 70: We know very little about the Saracenic invasion of 846
- 71: When the foundations of the baldacchino of Pius IX
- 72: Raised a wall for the defence of the basilica of S
- 73: We must not wonder at the disappearance of Johannipolis
- 74: Giovanni e Paolo on the Caelian
- 75: Later as the Titulus Pammachii
- 76: Maria in Palatio or in Palladio
- 77: The noble house of the Millini
- 78: De Rossi Bullettino di archeologia cristiana
- 79: Like ANUL LINVS or MARCEL LINVS
- 80: Description and history of his mausoleum
- 81: Should march through the Porta Triumphalis
- 82: But from the remote provinces of Galatia and Pisidia
- 83: And above all by Marcus Agrippa
- 84: Between the counts of Tusculum
- 85: Which guides attribute to Cola di Rienzo
- 86: Ten funeral cippi have been found in the ustrinum
- 87: She was banished by Tiberius to the island of Pandataria
- 88: Illustration The Ponte Nomentano
- 89: Between the valleys of la Cecchina and Melaina
- 90: The Via del Quirinale Venti Settembre
- 91: Was the fate of Askletarion the fortune teller
- 92: Illustration The Torre Pignattara
- 93: That the remains of Petronilla
- 94: A precious engraving by Bonanni
- 95: Sister of Thermantia and Eucherius
- 96: Wife of Turcius Asterius Secundus
- 97: The favorite residence of Caligula and of Alexander Severus
- 98: The vicissitudes of the Lateran basilica
- 99: Symonds remarks how the accumulated majesty of their busts
- 100: And begged him to purchase the Vigna Molinari
- 101: His work was finished by Siricius A
- 102: Illustration Portrait of Pope Cornelius
- 103: Sylvester took possession of the Lateran Palace
- 104: To an oratory near the new sacristy
- 105: When Rome was held in siege by Zoto
- 106: Illustration The Angel on the Mausoleum of Hadrian
- 107: Gregory's paternal house stood on the slope of the Caelian
- 108: That such a notable trophy as the tomb of Ceadwalla
- 109: The house of Nicola di Crescenzio
- 110: Near the Cappella Corsini lies Gerbert
- 111: Illustration Inscription of Vassalectus
- 112: Illustration The Antinous of the Banca Nazionale
- 113: It seems that while Bayazid II
- 114: Still belonging to the descendants of the Farnese family
- 115: Signor Orazio guessed that just behind the sun between them
- 116: The collection comprises the Farnese Bull
- 117: 105 Garrucci Vetri adornati di figure in oro
- 118: Would never submit to cremation
- 119: Which contain coffins as well as cineraria
- 120: When the necessity for popular ustrina was first felt
- 121: And if we remember how columbaria are built
- 122: In the triangle formed by the Via Appia
- 123: Illustration Ancient house in the Farnesina Gardens
- 124: At the opposite end of the Farnesina Gardens
- 125: Is probably that of Minasia Polla
- 126: Pancrazio and the Villa Pamfili
- 127: It was also dismantled by Pope Donnus
- 128: Which is announced in his epitaph Caius Julius Helius
- 129: Between the Salaria and the Pinciana
- 130: Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi Licinianus
- 131: On the same side of the Via Salaria
- 132: He took part in the sixth certamen sacrum
- 133: Had built the tomb for his sister Lucilia Polla
- 134: Now called the Valle della Caffarella
- 135: And the Valle della Caffarella
- 136: Illustration Tomb of Annia Regilla fragment
- 137: Sacred to the memory of Annia Regilla
- 138: But if the glutinous substance is washed off
- 139: Illustration The body of a girl found in 1485
- 140: Now in Weimar Here lies my only daughter Tulliola
- 141: It was inscribed simply with the name CREPEREIA TRYPHAENA
- 142: Why was she buried with her doll
- 143: Henzen Bullettino dell' Instituto
- 144: Fragment of the diary of Antonio di Vaseli 1481 1486
- 145: Vice president of the college of pontiffs
- 146: Practising religion openly in its Transtiberine synagogues
- 147: And convict them of impiety and atheism
- 148: Which is the date of the discovery of the first catacomb
- 149: That of Balbina was named for S
- 150: Capable of being excavated into catacombs
- 151: Calling them Greek ta thaumata the wonders
- 152: The date of the journey of Virgilius to Constantinople
- 153: Was overtaken by death at Chiusi
- 154: In incredible confusion and disorder loculi ransacked
- 155: 157 The number of catacombs has been greatly exaggerated
- 156: And Faustinus from profanation and robbery
- 157: Flaviae Domitillae divi Vespasiani neptis beneficio
- 158: The Acta Martyrum state that Flavia Domitilla
- 159: Illustration Petronilla and Veneranda
- 160: Husband of Bonifatia and father of Gordianus
- 161: Pauli in via Ostiensis utriusque in Catacumbas
- 162: Like the famous one of the chapel of the Sancta Sanctorum
- 163: Illustration Landslip in the Cemetery of Cyriaca
- 164: The latter was the largest of the Via Labicana
- 165: And reached the cubiculum nearly suffocated
- 166: 175 near the house of Pomponius
- 167: Trovati nei cimiteri dei Cristiani
- 168: 151 Bullettino di archeologia cristiana
- 169: 174 Bullettino di archeologia cristiana
- 170: For the names of individual arches
- 171: Probable origin of the gold found here by Herodes Atticus
- 172: A fresco of the Saviour with SS
- 173: Prehistoric cemeteries of the Viminal and the Esquiline
- 174: Bodies of martyrs transferred to it
- 175: Inscriptions from the tombs of
- 176: Inventory of gifts in the temple of Diana Nemorensis
- 177: Their pillage of the Catacombs
- 178: Descriptive of the Ludi Saeculares
- 179: Their tombs decorated with flowers
- 180: 185 see also Capitoline museum
- 181: His body transferred temporarily to the Catacombs
- 182: The author's archaeological map of
- 183: Transformation of the schola to the church
- 184: Commonly ornamented with hangings
- 185: In the sarcophagus of Crepereia Tryphaena
- 186: Wife of Turcius Asterius Secundus