Porticus Philippi

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Reconstructed site plan of the Porticus Philippi surrounding the Hercules Musarum Temple based on fragments from the FUR .
From the series of the Vedute di Roma by the architect Piranesi : The Porticus Philippi (1756).

The Porticus Philippi was a portico on the southern Campus Martius in Rome . She was in the years 34/33 BC. Built in BC.

The Porticus Philippi was created as a result of the triumph of the Spanish governor Lucius Marcius Philippus , who, after his stepbrother Octavian emerged victorious against Mark Antony in the Battle of Actium , probably denied the construction from Spanish war booty. As a quadriporticus, the colonnade enclosed the temple of Hercules Musarum, which was also renovated at the same time, and was directly connected to the neighboring porticos Octavia and Metelli (the latter the predecessor of the Porticus Octaviae). The Circus Flaminius bordered to the south and the Balbus theater to the north .

Archaeologically, parts of the foundation wall of the columned hall have been proven in three layers, especially in the southwest area at the opening to the Circus Flaminius. In addition, the foundation parts in the southeast and east of the facility are archaeologically secured, as well as inlets for the water channels and individual columns. The foundation layers consisted of tuff , the crowning edges of travertine and the columns of ( non-fluted ) peperino .
Fragments of the Forma Urbis (FUR 31bb-31hh) show access to the interior of the hall area from north and south, whereby Coarelli assumes that there are direct connections to the neighboring complexes. The fact that the Portikus housed a respectable art collection speaks in favor of access options and corresponding lockability. Pliny lists paintings placed inside, mainly from the 4th century BC. BC, so from Zeuxis of Herakleia , Antiphilus and Theoros.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Suetonius : Augustus 29,5. ; Pliny : Naturalis historia . 35.66; 35,114; 35.144
  2. ^ A b Jon Albers: Campus Martius. The urban development of the Field of Mars from the Republic to the Middle Imperial Period. Pp. 72, 79, 108 f; 196.
  3. ↑ Ovid , fasti , 6,799-812; see. James George Frazer : Ovid's Fasti. Text and English translation. Heinemann, London 1931; Reprinted 1959 ( archive.org ).
  4. ^ Tacitus : Annals. 3, 72, 1.
  5. ^ Samuel Ball Platner , Thomas Ashby : A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Oxford University Press, London 1929, p. 255 ( online ).
  6. ^ Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project: FUR AG 1980 # 31bb-31hh
  7. ^ Filippo Coarelli : Il Campo Marcio. Dalle Origini alla Fina della Repubblica. Quasar, Rome 1997, p. 475.
  8. ↑ Pliny: Naturalis historia . 35, 66; 35, 114; 35, 144.

literature

  • Jon Albers: Campus Martius. The urban development of the Field of Mars from the Republic to the Middle Imperial Period. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-89500-921-1 , pp. 72, 79, 108 f; 196.
  • Ferdinando Castagnoli: Porticus Philippi. In: Città e architettura nella Roma imperiale. Atti del seminario del 27 ottobre 1981 nel 25 anniversario dell'Accademia di Danimarca (= Analecta Romana Instituti Danici. Supplementa 10). Odense University Press, Odense 1983, pp. 91-104
  • Filippo Coarelli : Il Campo Marcio. Dalle Origini alla Fina della Repubblica. Quasar, Rome 1997, p. 475.
  • Piero Alfredo Gianfrotta: Indagini nell'area della porticus Philippi. In: Anna Maria Bietti Sestrieri (Ed.): Roma. Archeologica nel centro (= Lavori e studi di archeologia. Volume 6). De Luca, Rome 1985, pp. 376-84.
  • Barbara Porcari: Un restauro severiano della Porticus Philippi. In: Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma. Volume 109, 2008, pp. 177-191.
  • Lawrence Richardson Jr .: Hercules Musarum and the Porticus Philippi in Rome. In: American Journal of Archeology . Volume 81, 1977, pp. 355-61.
  • Lawrence Richardson Jr .: A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1992, p. 318 sv Porticus Philippi.
  • Birgitta Tamm: Le temple des Muses à Rome. In: Opuscula Romana. Volume 3, 1961, pp. 157-67.
  • Alessandro Viscogliosi: Porticus Philippi. In: Eva Margareta Steinby (Ed.): Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae . Volume 4. Quasar, Rome 1999, pp. 146-48.

Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 33 "  N , 12 ° 28 ′ 44"  E