Parker, John Henry: The archaeology of Rome (1,2): Illustrations to I. The primitive fortifications. II. The walls and gates of Rome. III. The historical constructions of walls (Oxford [u.a.], 1874)

Capitolium, Municipium, &c.

Plate VII.
Plan on the Level of the Tabularium. Part of the object
of this plan is to shew the exact situation with reference to the
Forum Romanum, by so well-known an object as the Arch of
Septimius Severus, marked D in the plan. This stands in the
Forum, and near one of the triumphal arches on the Via Sacra,
at the foot of the ascent to the Capitoline Hill. The Temple
of Concord is shewn immediately behind this; that temple was
not in the Forum, but in the Capitol: the boundary between the
two was the paved road, made, as usual, in the foss of the old for-
tifications of the Hill of Saturn. The temple immediately on the
left of the Arch is that of Vespasian (usually miscalled of Saturn);
the one behind it is that of Saturn, and in the corner, at the angle
with a bend, is that of the Dei Consents, or household gods of Rome :
at the junction of the two roads, between the temples of Concord
and Saturn, was the gate of the fortress of the hill of Saturn; this,
with the Temple of Saturn, as it then stood, and the Tabularium,
form the three buildings which Terentius Varro states were in his
time considered to have belonged to the city of the Sabines, which
shew that they were of very early and- rude construction. The
Temple of Saturn was rebuilt by Vespasian. Behind this are the
great buildings at that level, with a central court and buildings all
round it; the steps on the right-hand side are modern. The wall
up to the Capitol on the left is also modern, (and is about to
be destroyed). The old paved road passed under it, and went
on as far as the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, (now in the garden
of the German Embassy); and then turning at a right angle to the
Area Capitolina. This plan is taken from Canina.