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ARCUS DOMITIANI—ARCUS GALLIENI
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location of none of these is known to us unless a recent theory (PBS iii.
259-262) be true that identifies the arch referred to by Martial (viii. 65)
with the arcus manus Carneae of the Mirabilia (5) and Ordo Benedicti
(ap. Jordan ii. 666). This arch was near the Piazza Venezia, and perhaps
stood at the junction of the via Lata and the Vicus Pallacinae (q.v.),
since Domitian’s arches are usually represented on coins as quadrifrontal.
See Fortuna Redux, templum.
Arcus Domitiani (2) : * an arch, attributed to Domitian by Boni, has been
recently discovered on the clivus Palatinus, not far below the state
apartments of the domus Augustiana (CJ xv. (1919-20), 297 ; Boni
in Illustrazione Italiana, 1918, i. 373-375). Nothing is preserved but the
concrete foundations of the two piers (which were obviously wide enough
to admit of lateral openings), the pavement of the road which passed
through the central arch, and some architectural fragments ; and it
would be natural to suppose it to have been destroyed after his death
(cf. Equus Domitiani). The character of the concrete, however, seems
to point to an Augustan date (AJA 1923, 400; Mem. Am. Acad. v. 120).
Arcus Drusi : erected by the senate some time after 9 b.c. in honour of the
elder Drusus (Suet. Claud. 1 ; HJ 216). It was of marble, adorned with
trophies, and stood on the via Appia, probably a little north of its junction
with the via Latina. It seems to have given its name to the Vicus
Drusianus (q.v.), and is probably the arcus Recordationis of the Einsiedeln
Itinerary (11. 3; 13. 24; cf. Mon. L. i. 515; DAP 2. ix. 416). See
also Aqua Drusia.
Arcus Drusi : erected in honour of the younger Drusus after his death
in 23 a.d., if the statement in Tacitus (Ann. iv. 9 ; cf. ii. 83) be correct.
Possibly it stood at the north end of the Rostra, as the arch of Tiberius
stood at the south.
Arcus Drusi et Germanici : two arches erected in 19 a.d. in honour of
Drusus and Germanicus on each side of the temple of Mars Ultor in the
Forum Augustum (Tac. Ann. ii. 64; CILvi. 911 =31199; cf. 912 = 31200).
Arcus Fabiorum : see Fornix Fabiorum.
Arcus Gallieni : erected on the site of the Porta Esquilina (q.v.) in 262
a.d. by one M. Aurelius Victor (BC 1920, 170), and dedicated to the
Emperor Gallienus (CIL vi. 1106 ; ILS 548). It stands in the Via di S.
Vito, close to the church of the same name. The existing single arch is of
travertine, 8.80 metres high, 7.30 wide, and 3.50 deep. The piers which
support it are 1.40 metres wide and 3.50 deep, and outside of them are
two pilasters of the same depth, with Corinthian capitals. The enta-
blature is 2 metres high with the dedicatory inscription on the architrave.
Beneath the spring of the arch on each side is a simple cornice. A drawing
(HJ 343) of the fifteenth century shows small side arches, but all traces
of them have disappeared (PAS ii. 76 ; Sangallo, Barb. 25v).
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location of none of these is known to us unless a recent theory (PBS iii.
259-262) be true that identifies the arch referred to by Martial (viii. 65)
with the arcus manus Carneae of the Mirabilia (5) and Ordo Benedicti
(ap. Jordan ii. 666). This arch was near the Piazza Venezia, and perhaps
stood at the junction of the via Lata and the Vicus Pallacinae (q.v.),
since Domitian’s arches are usually represented on coins as quadrifrontal.
See Fortuna Redux, templum.
Arcus Domitiani (2) : * an arch, attributed to Domitian by Boni, has been
recently discovered on the clivus Palatinus, not far below the state
apartments of the domus Augustiana (CJ xv. (1919-20), 297 ; Boni
in Illustrazione Italiana, 1918, i. 373-375). Nothing is preserved but the
concrete foundations of the two piers (which were obviously wide enough
to admit of lateral openings), the pavement of the road which passed
through the central arch, and some architectural fragments ; and it
would be natural to suppose it to have been destroyed after his death
(cf. Equus Domitiani). The character of the concrete, however, seems
to point to an Augustan date (AJA 1923, 400; Mem. Am. Acad. v. 120).
Arcus Drusi : erected by the senate some time after 9 b.c. in honour of the
elder Drusus (Suet. Claud. 1 ; HJ 216). It was of marble, adorned with
trophies, and stood on the via Appia, probably a little north of its junction
with the via Latina. It seems to have given its name to the Vicus
Drusianus (q.v.), and is probably the arcus Recordationis of the Einsiedeln
Itinerary (11. 3; 13. 24; cf. Mon. L. i. 515; DAP 2. ix. 416). See
also Aqua Drusia.
Arcus Drusi : erected in honour of the younger Drusus after his death
in 23 a.d., if the statement in Tacitus (Ann. iv. 9 ; cf. ii. 83) be correct.
Possibly it stood at the north end of the Rostra, as the arch of Tiberius
stood at the south.
Arcus Drusi et Germanici : two arches erected in 19 a.d. in honour of
Drusus and Germanicus on each side of the temple of Mars Ultor in the
Forum Augustum (Tac. Ann. ii. 64; CILvi. 911 =31199; cf. 912 = 31200).
Arcus Fabiorum : see Fornix Fabiorum.
Arcus Gallieni : erected on the site of the Porta Esquilina (q.v.) in 262
a.d. by one M. Aurelius Victor (BC 1920, 170), and dedicated to the
Emperor Gallienus (CIL vi. 1106 ; ILS 548). It stands in the Via di S.
Vito, close to the church of the same name. The existing single arch is of
travertine, 8.80 metres high, 7.30 wide, and 3.50 deep. The piers which
support it are 1.40 metres wide and 3.50 deep, and outside of them are
two pilasters of the same depth, with Corinthian capitals. The enta-
blature is 2 metres high with the dedicatory inscription on the architrave.
Beneath the spring of the arch on each side is a simple cornice. A drawing
(HJ 343) of the fifteenth century shows small side arches, but all traces
of them have disappeared (PAS ii. 76 ; Sangallo, Barb. 25v).