Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1907)
Strong, Eugénie Sellers · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 512
part of a ceremonial sacrificial scene that playsin front of a temple which, from the subject, must bethat of Quirinus on the Quirinal, restored by Augustusin B.C. i6. We have already met with similar copiesof actual temples on reliefs—the temple of V^enus andRome, for instance, on an Hadrianic… … SEVERUS TO DIOCLETIAN 303 Aurelius (p. 293), and the temple of Mars Ultor and ofthe Magna Mater on two reliefs tentatively attributedto the Flavian period (p. 143). Architectural indica-tions of locality are, in fact, very common on all Romanrelief sculpture. In the present instance the subject…
Sculpture, Roman · Sculpture, Greco-Roman
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