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Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna (1887)

Forbes, S. Russell · London ; New York : T.Nelson · leaf 150

An illustration from Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna, 1887, leaf 150 — its original site, the Sphia of Neros Circus,which was near the Sacristy, on the left of S. Peters. An inscriptionin the pavement marks the place. Pliny (xxxvi. 14), says: Thethird obelisk at Rome is in the Vatican Circus, which was con-structed by the emperors Caius [Caligula] and Nero; this being… … 108 KAMULE II. height, which, by order of an oracle, he consecrated to the sun, afterhaving lost his sight and recovered it. Herodotus says: It wasdedicated by Phero, son of Sesostris, in gratitude for his recoveryfrom blindness. It has no hieroglyphics, so if this was the originalhow could they…

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