Domus Tiberiana

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The multi-storey arcades of the Domus Tiberiana were realized under Emperor Hadrian in order to integrate the high facade architecturally into the Via Nova

The Domus Tiberiana is a palace complex on the Palatine Hill in Rome, which dates back to Emperor Tiberius . It is located between the Temple of Magna Mater in the south and the Roman Forum in the north.

At its core, and during Tiberius' time, the complex was probably created from a merger of late Republican houses, a - similar to the nearby House of Augustus - a very modest domicile compared to the later imperial palaces. Only under Caligula (and possibly also under Nero ) was a representative expansion and an extension of the plant to the northeast.

Little is known of the extent and nature of the complex at that time. Suetonius writes:

partem Palatii ad Forum usque promovit, atque aede Castoris et Pollucis in vestibulum transfigurata
"He [Caligula] extended the complex up to the forum, making the temple of Castor and Pollux his antechamber."

And with Flavius ​​Josephus it says: "If he [Caligula] stood on his royal palace and threw gold and silver among the crowd, one could easily have pushed him down, for the top of the palace rose high above the forum." From which one can infer that the expansion of the facility in the north corresponded roughly to today's.

The facility was largely destroyed in the devastating fire of 80. When the palace complexes of Domitian ( Domus Flavia and Domus Augustana ) were then rebuilt, parts of the Domus Tiberiana (mainly preserved enclosing walls) were integrated into the redesign of the Palatine Hill.

In the 16th century, the entire area was built over by the Farnesini Gardens , which today severely limits the extent of possible excavations. The parts still visible today are essentially enclosing walls and remnants of basement floors.

Since 2011, extensive new excavations have been taking place, which can be observed from a visitor platform.

literature

  • Ueli Bellwald among others: Domus Tiberiana. New Research - Restoration Studies. Verlag der Fachvereine Zürich, Zürich 1985, ISBN 3-7281-1478-2 (publications of the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, vol. 5, supplement).
  • Clemens Krause: Ricerche sulla storia edilizi. Report preliminare. In: AA.VV. Domus Tiberiana, Nuove ricerche, studi di restauro. Zurich 1985. pp. 73-136.
  • Clemens Krause: Domus Tiberiana I. Gli scavi. Bollettino di Archeologia 25-27 (1994). Rome 1998. pp. 1-228
  • Clemens Krause: Domus Tiberiana In: Lexicon topographicum Urbis Romae II. Rome 1995. pp. 189–197, s. v. Domus Tiberiana.
  • Clemens Krause: The Domus Tiberiana. From the residential quarter to the imperial palace. In: A. Hoffmann, U. Wulf (Ed.): The Imperial Palaces on the Palatine Hill in Rome. Mainz 2004. pp. 34-61.
  • Marie-France Meylan Krause: Domus Tiberiana. Analyzes stratigraphiques et céramologiques. Archaeopress, Oxford 2002, ISBN 1-84171-438-0 (with an English summary).
  • Samuel Ball Platner , Thomas Ashby : A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Oxford University Press, London 1929, pp. 191-194. Online: LacusCurtius [2] .
  • Esther Boise Van Deman: The House of Caligula. In: American Journal of Archeology Vol. 28, No. 4 (1924), pp. 368-398. JSTOR 497538 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Suetonius, Caligula 22.
  2. ↑ Josephus, Antiquities Judaicae 1.1.11.
  3. ^ Suetonius, divus Titus 8; Hieronymus chronicon p. 271f [1] .

Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 24 ″  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 10 ″  E