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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Tivoli, Lazio, Italyen_US
dc.coverage.temporalca. 125-75 BCE (creation)en_US
dc.creatorunknown (Ancient Roman)en_US
dc.date-75--125en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-26T21:19:32Z
dc.date.available2013-02-26T21:19:32Z
dc.date.issued-75--125en_US
dc.identifier196662en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1576en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/104170
dc.descriptionDistant view depicting plateau; Tivoli is an Italian hill town, 37 km east of Rome, set above the cascades of the River Aniene. As Tibur, it was a favourite retreat of wealthy Romans escaping the summer heat. Villas were built there, the most famous being that of the emperor Hadrian. Two important 2nd-century BCE temples survive on the acropolis: a tetrastyle pseudo-peripteral Ionic temple and a circular peripteral structure, the so-called Temple of Vesta, 14.25 m in diameter, raised on a high podium, with a cella of opus incertum surrounded by 18 Corinthian columns. The capitals, of the Italo-Corinthian type, have two rings of lush acanthus leaves from which spring corkscrew volutes and a large flower (imitated by Sir John Soane in the Tivoli Corner of the Bank of England, London, 1805). The rectangular and circular temples have been associated with Tiburnus and Albunea (the Tiburtine Sibyl) respectively on the basis of literary sources (e.g. Horace: Odes I.vii.12), which record that they were worshipped near a waterfall beside the acropolis. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/13/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumtravertine stoneen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectdeitiesen_US
dc.subjectmythology (Classical)en_US
dc.subjectImperial (Roman)en_US
dc.titleTemple of Vestaen_US
dc.title.alternativeTemple of Albunea (the Tiburtine Sibyl)en_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A3-R-T-TS-A1en_US
vra.culturalContextAncient Romanen_US
vra.techniquecarving (processes) construction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypeexcavation (site)en_US
vra.worktypetempleen_US
dc.contributor.displayunknown (Ancient Roman)en_US


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