Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1907)
Strong, Eugénie Sellers · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 322
d the beautiful architecture of three distinctLxxix seaports. The first of these is now almost universallyadmitted to be Ancona (207, 2o8). High up on the left,within its sacred precincts, is the Temple of Venus. Ante domum Veneris, quam Dorica sustinet Ancon.(Juvenal, iv. 40.) The image of the… … J G THE TRAJAN COLUMN 187 the shrine of Venus, a road comes winding down to theseashore, where it ends in an arch surmounted by thestatues of three divinities. This must certainly be thefamous Arch of Trajan, erected by the Emperor to com-memorate the restoration, at his own expense, of theharbour…
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