Roman Art and Archaeology: Week 11

Ustrinum

flaming funerary alter

Tivoli

Region that houses Hadrian’s Villa

teatro maritimo

maritime theater of Hadrian’s Villa

canopus

a wonderful outdoor area

Vindolanda

a Roman auxillary fort south of Hadrian’s wall

horrea

Roman public warehouse

insula

Roman housing for the mass of plebians in an urban area

opus testaceum

concrete walling technique that used triangular blocks with their points in the concrete, giving the illusion of thin bricks

Isola Sacra

columbarium

communal tomb

collegium/funerary association

a professional guild of musicians that specialized in funerary music

Fig. 13-3 Hadrian as imperator, from Hierapytna, Greece, ca. 120–125 CE. Marble

Fig. 13-5 Veiled bust of Sabina, Rome, marble. ca. 136–138. Marble.

Fig. 12-24 Trajan battling Dacians, *Great Trajanic Frieze*, ca. 117–120

Fig. 13-18 Pantheon, Rome, completed 125, concrete, brick

Fig. 13-19A Interior of the Pantheon (looking south), Rome, completed 125

Fig. 13-8 Adlocutio, *Anaglypha Hadriani,* ca. 118–120. Marble. Curia, Forum Romanum, Rome

Fig. 13-9 Burning of debt records, *Anaglypha Hadriani,* ca. 118–120. Marble. Curia, Forum Romanum, Rome

Fig. 13-10 Apotheosis of Sabina, from the Arco di Portogallo, Rome, 136–138. Marble

Fig. 13-12 Aerial view of Hadrian’s Villa (looking southwest), Tivoli, ca. 118–138

Fig. 13-7 Antinous in the guise of an Egyptian pharaoh,  from the Poikile, Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli, ca. 130–138.  Marble