CHIUDI

Author: Adolfo Bellantuono

Subject
The Mausoleum of Sant’Urbano in a negative of the late 1800s from the collection of the famous British archaeologist Thomas Ashby. It was in these years that the land where the tomb stood was purchased by the Lugari brothers, who carried out a series of excavation campaigns between 1880 and 1895. The image shows the rear apsidal part of the tomb and two figures sitting on the kerbs at either side of the road, paved in stone. The figure on the left is identified as Rodolfo Lanciani, while the identification of the woman on the right is uncertain: since the American archaeologist Ester Boise van Deman did not arrive in Rome until a few years later, this may be one of the two Bulwer sisters, Agnes or Dora Ellinor, both skilled photographers.

Ashby Collection Accession number – TA[PHP]-0391
Gelatin silver salt negative
1895 (January)

Placement
British School at Rome

Credits
British School at Roma (BSR), Ashby Collection – TA[PHP]-0391

Subject
Statue of a man in the guise of Hercules, in heroic nudity with its head covered by the Nemean lion skin. The right hand, now missing, probably held the club; on the left side there is the quiver.

Accession number 23.M322-1.1
Pentelic marble
Height 208 cm
Full-length sculpture; the right hand, the left forearm and a part of the right ankle are missing.
Mid-3rd century A.D.

Provenance
It was found in the Scoot Park during a complex revision and cleaning intervention of the sewage pipe belonging to Acea.

Placement
Casale di Santa Maria Nova – Villa dei Quintili

Credits
3D edited by Luca J. Senatore (Department of History, Drawing and Restoration of architecture – La Sapienza University of Rome).

Subject
Caryatid statue rediscovered in 1585, at the time of Sixtus 5th. Originally, it was part of a sculptural group placed on the frontal part of a temple-shaped building depicted by Giovan Battista Piranesi in 1765. The Temple of Caryatids was located in the Pago Triopio, the land property of Annia Regilla, Herodes Atticus’ wife. According to recent studies, the sanctuary is situated in the area of Capo di Bove’s thermal baths, where in 2004 a fragmentary statue of the same building was unearthed. Other Caryatid statues belonging to the same context are preserved in the Vatican Museum and the Albani collection.

Accession number 1805,0703.44
Pentelic marble
Height 2,20 m
Intact
140-160 A.D.

Provenance
Complesso di Capo di Bove

Placement
British Museum

Credits
British Museum

References
A. Wilton and I. Bignamini (eds.), Grand Tour: The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (Exhibition Catalogue, Tate Gallery, London, 1996), 226, no. 174.

Subject
Composite capital with smooth leaves probably produced for the basilica of Santo Stefano on the Via Latina.

Accession number 22.M322-5.2.
Veined and carved marble.
Height cm 43; width cm 60; depth cm 56. Base diameter cm 38. Height acanthus leaf of the first band cm 13.5; height acanthus leaf of the second band cm 22.5.
Intact. The capital is incomplete nearby the leaves’ endings; this part shows a degradation due to pulverization.
Half of 5th cent. A.D.

Provenance
East wall of the basilica of Santo Stefano’s narthex on the Via Latina

Placement
Tombe della via Latina

Credits
Archive of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures of Giulio Archinà)

References
A.S. Cugno, Capitello composito a foglie lisce in Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, exhibition catalgue curated by di F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Mantova 2022, pp. 501-502.

Subject
Fragment of a sarcophagus’ gabled lid with angular acroterion with theatrical mask.

Accession number 22.M322-1.190.
White marble, relief sculpture.
Height cm 15; width cm 40; depth cm 2.4.
Beginning of 4th cent. A.D.

Provenance
Uncertain provenance between the 8th and the 9th mile of the Via Appia Antica

Placement
Appia Antica Archaeological Park (storage)

Credits
Archive of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures of Giulio Archinà)

References
F.R. Paolillo, Frammento di un coperchio di sarcofago in Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, exhibition catalogue curated by F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Mantova 2022, p. 481.

Subject
Fragment of pediment with relief scene probably belonging to a funerary monument

Accession number 22.M322-1.7.
Marble, chiseling.
Max. height cm 16.1; max. width cm 35; depth cm 2.4.
Late 3rd-4th cent. A.D.

Provenance
5th-6th mile of the Via Appia Antica, in the so called Orazi’s tomb

Placement
Appia Antica Archaeological Park (storage)

Credits
Archive of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures of Giulio Archinà)

References
C. Veen, Frammento di Frontone con scena in rilievo in Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, exhibition catalogue curated by di F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Mantova 2022, p. 462.

Subject
Three playing dice made of bone.

Accession number 22.M322-1.4.
Bone, rub-up, engraving.
Side cm 0.8; side cm 0.7; longer side cm 1.1; smaller side cm 1.
Intact.
Roman age.

Provenance
5th-6th mile of the Via Appia Antica, in the so called Orazi’s tomb

Placement
Appia Antica Archaeological Park (storage)

Credits
Archive of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures of Giulio Archinà)

References
C. Veen, Tre dadi da gioco in osso in Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, exhibition catalogue curated by F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Mantova 2022, p. 459.

Subject
Male torso belonging to a sculpture smaller than the human size. The upper and lower part are missing.

Accession number 575995
Pentelic marble, all-round.
Cm 24 x 15 x 11.
Fragmentary with scratch and abrasion.
2nd cent. A.D.

Provenance
Thermal area of Villa dei Quintili, in a tiepidarium service room

Placement
Appia Antica Archaeological Park (storage)

Credits
Archive of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures of Giulio Archinà)

References
Dario Canino, Torso maschile in Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, catalogo della mostra curated by di F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Mantova 2022, p. 427.

Subject
Brick with medium lunate mark on two lines.

Accession number 22.M322-4.92.
Terracotta, printing technique.
Mark: diameter cm 10, letters height cm 1.8, signum height cm 5.
Fragmentary.
40-155 A.D (Steinby 1974-75); 160-169 A.D. (Helen 1976).

Provenance
Capo di Bove thermal bath

Placement
Appia Antica Archaeological Park (storage)

Credits
Archive of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures of Giulio Archinà)

References
G. de Rossi, Laterizio con bollo in Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, exhibition catalogue curated by F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Mantova 2022, p. 417.

Subject
Apodal bowl decorated with dilute cobalt blue and manganese.

Accession number 22.M322-2.181.
Glazed inside and colourless outside; rose-brown mixture.
Edge diameter cm 28.2, bottom cm 19.8, height cm 5.8 (max. cm 6.4 in the deformed part).
Partially recomposed with fragments.
15th cent., first half.

Provenance
Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella, 3rd mile of the Via Appia Antica

Placement
Appia Antica Archaeological Park (storage)

Credits
Archive of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures of Giulio Archinà)

References
J. Russo, Maiolica arcaica – scodella apode in Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, exhibition catalogue curated by F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Mantova 2022, pp. 366-367.