Foreign topography; or, an encyclopedick account, alphabetically arranged, of the ancient remains in Africa, Asia, and Europe; forming a sequel to the Encyclopedia of antiquities / By the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbroke.
- Thomas Dudley Fosbroke
- Date:
- 1828
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Foreign topography; or, an encyclopedick account, alphabetically arranged, of the ancient remains in Africa, Asia, and Europe; forming a sequel to the Encyclopedia of antiquities / By the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbroke. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![inner sides, Titus is in a triumphal car, drawn by four horses, led by Rome holding a spear and carrying a lance. Lictors accompany the car. The spoils of Jerusalem are carried before; viz. the candlestick with seven branches, the tables of the law, of the showbread, &c. (Enc.) [Montfaucon has engraved these, and there the goddess Rome holds the bridle in one hand.] P. 4. The Grand Arch of Septimius Severus. It was elevated to his honour on account of the victories obtained over the Parthians, &c. the bas-reliefs are winged victories carrying trophies ; genii with perfumes, flowers and fruits, symbolical of the conquered provinces; and four rivers, two barbarian. Eight fluted Corinthian columns supported the inscription in black letters, carried off by the Goths. A marble stair- case within, led to the top, where were Caracalla with his father and brother in a tri- umphal car of six horses, and soldiers on the side. Enc.'\ P. 4. The Arch of Horatius Codes, [fabulous Enc.~\ or what it is, unknown. P. 7, 8. The small Archof Septimius Severus in the Fora Boaria, commonly called Aurificium. [It now joins the walls of the church of St. George. The tradesmen of the place erected it. It remains entire, together with the bas-reliefs, upon which on one side are Severus and his wife Julia Pia, on the other Antoninus Caracalla and Gela, sacrificing the altar, &c. &c. (Enc.) Buenaventura adds, that it is of the Com- posite order, and that on one side Hercules is accompanied by Bacchus. Of his fondness for Bacchus, see Macroh. Saturn, v. c. 21. and Hercules Ebrius, ^c. in Dallaway's Arts, 347-] P. 9. The Arch of Gallienus without ornament. [It is now the arch of St. Vitus, because it adjoins his church. It was not triumphal, but raised by Marcus Aurelius Victor in honor of Gallienus and Salonina his wife. It is in a very bad Corinthian style, and shows the decay of the arts, through the distracted state of the empire. Enc(\ P. 11. The Arch of Constantine. [It was built by the people after his victory over Maxentius, but either with the remains of that of Trajan, which stood in his Forum, or of that Forum. The bas-reliefs refer to that emperor, which are of supe- rior execution. These are on the two sides of the interior of the portal. Enc.'\ [Here terminate Buenaventura’s plates of the arches. In digging the foundations of the Colonna Palace, called Sciarra, from the place upon which it is built, were found in 164I, the remains of the Arch of Claudius. These consisted of a Mosaic pavement; an enormous piece of marble, upon \vhich were inscribed that emperor’s titles; fluted columns of African marble ; the torso of a captive; and a gold coin of Claudius, bearing on the reverse the equestrian statue of Claudius placed on a tri- umphal arch, in memory of his victory over the Britons. The Arch of Drusus, un- certain whether the father or brother of Tiberius. Two columns of African marble in front of the gate of St. Sebastian, are thought to have made part of it. The Arch of the New Gate, perhaps raised in honour of Augustus, who made the Flaminian way. Nardini thinks, that a cornice of marble at the entrance of the Flaminian way, near an inn called Borghetto, is a relick of it. The Arch of Trajan, terminated his forum ; of its remains, see Constantine’s Arch. Pancirollus thinks, that the remains are those ascribed above to that of Drusus. Enc.~\ P. 13. The Obelisk of St. Mahutus, of one solid stone, It was found near the temple of Isis, It is not known who brought it to Rome. It is but small. P. 15' The Barberini Obelisk, believed, with confidence, to have been first erected in Egypt by Rameses or Sethos his father, and brought to Rome by Antoninus Cara-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22012035_0345.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
