Here's another, here, here's just comparing the the, bay, the
podium of the Claudianum to the Porta Maggiore in Rome.
Just to remind you of the rusticated columns
there, the rusticated drums, of these engaged columns.
And then at the upper most part the way in which the upper part of the column and the
capitol are, are dressed smooth and seem to emerge.
And that's when I first made that point about the likelihood that the column that
we're supposed to read this as the column
completed inside just waiting to to break free.
And we see the same thing, but a further elaboration of that here
and I think you can see that much better in this particular detail.
Where you can again see the entire Pilaster behind the rusticated masonry.
You see
the, the the finished capitol, the finished entableture
up above, and then you can make out the
entire, the entire pier, all the way, the
entire pilaster, all the way down to the base.
And then superimposed or so it seems it's
not superimposed it's just carved in this way.
But in between those, these rusticated blocks again
giving me at least the sense that the pilaster
is done inside, it's just waiting somehow for it's debut out
of this travertine block. Now what about the rest of the complex?
We don't know exactly but we have some general
sense that it is quite likely that it was
similar to the, the sanctuaries that we looked at
earlier, the Sanctuary of Jupiter Anxur at Terracina and Hercules
at Tivoli and in fact we do have some fragments
of this on what is called the marble plan of Rome.
I've referred to that before, the so called Forma Urbis.
The Forma Urbis which was a marble plan of
Rome that was made in the early third century AD.
Which was housed in the building that I'm going to show you later today.
And there are fragments of this structure
there that give us a sense of what it looked like in an, in antiquity.
So we would have had the podium, it's mis-restored here, you have to imagine
the two tiers that we just looked at before, not this sort of thing.
But those beneath serving as the podium, or the decoration of the podium.
And then above, a large rectangular space with a temple, pushed not quite to the
edge of the back wall, but one of, toward one of the walls dominating this
space in front of it as you can see.
We don't know exactly what that temple looked like but it was probably a fairly
conventional temple on the order of so many that we have looked at this semester.
What's interesting about this it's different from the
other sanctuaries that we saw is that in their
rectangular space above they seem to have planted a
lot of bushes, as, as you can see here.
And that becomes very, a very popular way of decorating
these kinds of complexes in the Flavian period.
We'll see another example later today.
Diana E.E. KleinerDunham Professor of History of Art and Classics at Yale University
