The British School at Rome.

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became assimilated to one another and eventually combined as we see in
this Sacchetti relief. Further discoveries of historical reliefs will throw
more light on this question of the development of types.

The Frieze of the Arch of Constantine.

Hitherto it has always been supposed that all the reliefs which form
the frieze of the arch of Constantine were actually executed for that arch.
A careful examination of these reliefs has led to a somewhat different
conclusion. The slabs, or rather the groups of slabs (for each relief is
carved on several blocks) which compose the frieze are arranged on the
arch thus:—
South Side.
Battle at a River Siege of a City
A B
Triumph, Triumph, car
Emperor in car with captives
E D
Rostra Congiarium

North Side.

The scenes have been explained by different writers1 thus :—

Venuti, Descri-
zione,
IIP Edizione.
Nibby, Roma Arch.,
1838, PARTE ANTICA,
II· p. 454·
Beschreibung Rom’s.
Monaci.2
A
Battle at Pons Mul-
vius ■
Pons Mulvius
Pons Mulvius
Pons Mulvius
B
C
Siege of Verona
Siege of Susa
Siege of Verona
Triumph of Crispus
over Licinius and
the Goths
Siege of Susa
Triumph of Constan-
tine
D
Congiarium
Congiarium
Congiarium
E
F
Allocutio
Allocutio
Speech on Rostra
Triumph of Constan-
tine over Maxent-
ius
Triumph of Constan-
tine

1 Only those are given who have attempted any detailed description of the scenes.
2 See his two papers in the Atti della Pontificia Accademia di Archeologia, 1901, pp. 107 seqq.;
1904, pp. 3 seqq ; and also Bull. Comm., 1900, pp. 75-116. Cf. Strong, Roman Sculpture, p. 332.