Album 1
arrow left swipe to the left Visible reflectance photograph Verso of the twenty-third sheet, Album 1 activate zoom zoom tool
Leaf 23 verso activate zoom zoom tool
Visible reflectance photograph Frieze and detailed studies from the Temple of Vespasian activate zoom zoom tool arrow right swipe to the right
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Works on this double page

  • Incident light photograph. Black chalk drawing of a frieze with, among other things, bucranion, pomp helmet, amphora and other detail studies from the Temple of Vespasian on the Roman Forum.
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Album 1, Leaf 24

These ornaments come from the Temple of Vespasian at the Roman Forum, built in the late first century AD. The sides of its architrave were decorated with a frieze of various cult objects and skulls of sacrificial animals, denoting the building’s sacred character.

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