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peculiarities are worth noting (RA 163-167). The Septizonium (q.v.)
was built to screen them.
Of the superstructure, which must have had a somewhat fantastic
plan, with rooms of irregular shape and form, but little is left. The
so-called tower of Theodoric is a circular latrine. Where the imperial
tribune for watching the races in the circus Maximus (supposing always
that Severus erected a new one), is to be sought, is quite uncertain ;
while the story that Severus wished to make the entrance to the
Palatine from the via Appia, and that Alexander Severus had the same
intention but was hindered by ritual reasons (Hist. Aug. Sev. 24. 4), is
doubtful.
(e) The fifth section of the imperial palace is the huge rectangular
platform supported by terrace walls, which occupies the east angle of
the Palatine (Ill. 20). The identification with the Adonaea (q.v.) is
doubtful, but the shape of the whole area (the Vigna Barberini, in the
centre of which rises the church of S. Sebastiano in Pallara) seems to
be that of a garden ; and its construction is probably due to Domitian,
though brick-stamps of Hadrian have been found (Nibby, RomaAntica
ii. 447, 473 ; cf. RL 1909, 527-539 ; Rassegna contemporanea, 1911,
No. 9; JRS 1919, 186; ZA 219-221). Others place here the temple
of Jupiter Ultor (q.v.) or the temple of Apollo (q.v.). For mediaeval
fortifications here, cf. RL cit.
That the Palladium was still preserved on the Palatine in the middle
of the fourth century a.d. is clear from the inscription of a Consularis
Campaniae of that period, found at Privernum (Piperno), in which he
is spoken of Praepositus Palladii Palatini (CIL x. 6441 ; Bull. d’Inst.
1863, 212). The regio Palladii1 or Pallaria is distinguished from the
Palatium maius in the sources of the eleventh-thirteenth centuries ;
and the church of S. Maria (or S. Sebastiano, as it is now called) de
Palladio or in Pallaria, with paintings of 970, still exists in the middle
of the Vigna Barberini, where Hulsen places the temple of Apollo,
in which he thinks the Palladium was kept (Wilpert, Mos. u. Mai. Taf.
224, 225 ; HCh 353-355).
On the south-west of the Vigna Barberini lies the church of S.
Bonaventura built over a large reservoir, which was supplied by a
branch of the Aqua Claudia (q.v. ; see also Arcus Neroniani), and
between it and the ‘ Stadium ’ was a nymphaeum. Below the summit
of the hill on the south-east slope are remains of private houses,
attributable to the same general period.
Inscriptions of slaves and freedmen, including a priest of Mithras,
connected with the domus Augustiana, from the second century
onwards, are published in CIL vi. 2271, 8640-52 ; cf. xv. i860, 7246.
For the representation of the domus Augustiana (Flavia) in the
Marble Plan, see Hulsen in DAP 2. xi. 111-120 ; and pls. ii., iii. Which,
1 The form Palladium is found in Deusdedit (eleventh century) ; see RL 1912, 768-772.
peculiarities are worth noting (RA 163-167). The Septizonium (q.v.)
was built to screen them.
Of the superstructure, which must have had a somewhat fantastic
plan, with rooms of irregular shape and form, but little is left. The
so-called tower of Theodoric is a circular latrine. Where the imperial
tribune for watching the races in the circus Maximus (supposing always
that Severus erected a new one), is to be sought, is quite uncertain ;
while the story that Severus wished to make the entrance to the
Palatine from the via Appia, and that Alexander Severus had the same
intention but was hindered by ritual reasons (Hist. Aug. Sev. 24. 4), is
doubtful.
(e) The fifth section of the imperial palace is the huge rectangular
platform supported by terrace walls, which occupies the east angle of
the Palatine (Ill. 20). The identification with the Adonaea (q.v.) is
doubtful, but the shape of the whole area (the Vigna Barberini, in the
centre of which rises the church of S. Sebastiano in Pallara) seems to
be that of a garden ; and its construction is probably due to Domitian,
though brick-stamps of Hadrian have been found (Nibby, RomaAntica
ii. 447, 473 ; cf. RL 1909, 527-539 ; Rassegna contemporanea, 1911,
No. 9; JRS 1919, 186; ZA 219-221). Others place here the temple
of Jupiter Ultor (q.v.) or the temple of Apollo (q.v.). For mediaeval
fortifications here, cf. RL cit.
That the Palladium was still preserved on the Palatine in the middle
of the fourth century a.d. is clear from the inscription of a Consularis
Campaniae of that period, found at Privernum (Piperno), in which he
is spoken of Praepositus Palladii Palatini (CIL x. 6441 ; Bull. d’Inst.
1863, 212). The regio Palladii1 or Pallaria is distinguished from the
Palatium maius in the sources of the eleventh-thirteenth centuries ;
and the church of S. Maria (or S. Sebastiano, as it is now called) de
Palladio or in Pallaria, with paintings of 970, still exists in the middle
of the Vigna Barberini, where Hulsen places the temple of Apollo,
in which he thinks the Palladium was kept (Wilpert, Mos. u. Mai. Taf.
224, 225 ; HCh 353-355).
On the south-west of the Vigna Barberini lies the church of S.
Bonaventura built over a large reservoir, which was supplied by a
branch of the Aqua Claudia (q.v. ; see also Arcus Neroniani), and
between it and the ‘ Stadium ’ was a nymphaeum. Below the summit
of the hill on the south-east slope are remains of private houses,
attributable to the same general period.
Inscriptions of slaves and freedmen, including a priest of Mithras,
connected with the domus Augustiana, from the second century
onwards, are published in CIL vi. 2271, 8640-52 ; cf. xv. i860, 7246.
For the representation of the domus Augustiana (Flavia) in the
Marble Plan, see Hulsen in DAP 2. xi. 111-120 ; and pls. ii., iii. Which,
1 The form Palladium is found in Deusdedit (eleventh century) ; see RL 1912, 768-772.