. Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. the Emperor Titus in a chariot drami byfour horses, preceded by Romans wearing laurel wreaths and cany-iug the fasces. Behind the chariot, Victory is in the act of placinga crown on the emperors head. The vault is ornamented withsquare coffers and roses, and in the centre the apotheosis of Titus, insquare relief. At this point the Via Sacra was sometimes called the Clivus Pala-tinus, as it led up to the Palatine, on tlie right. Cloelia had her statue
. Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. the Emperor Titus in a chariot drami byfour horses, preceded by Romans wearing laurel wreaths and cany-iug the fasces. Behind the chariot, Victory is in the act of placinga crown on the emperors head. The vault is ornamented withsquare coffers and roses, and in the centre the apotheosis of Titus, insquare relief. At this point the Via Sacra was sometimes called the Clivus Pala-tinus, as it led up to the Palatine, on tlie right. Cloelia had her statue in the Via Sacra, as you go up to thePalatine (Plutarch, in Publicola). Passing through the Arch of Titus, On our right are some remains of the Fiangipani foitress, a towerof the middle ages; a piece of the second wall of Pome ; some sub-structions and walls, as it were supporting the Palatine Hill; andremains of the Baths and TEMPLE OP THE SUN, built by Elagabalus, on the slopes of the Palatine^ for the worshipof the Syro-Phoenician sun-god, which was represented by a blackconical stone, set with gems. Elagabalus broke into the Temple of. THE CENTRE OF ROME. 91 Vesta, intending to remove the Palladium to his Temple of the Sun,but the virgins, by a pious fraud, defeated his object, un discoveringwhich he broke into their sanctuary, and carried off one of the virginsto add to his list of wives (Lamjiridius). The temple was built for the worship of the Sun. Around itwas the Lavacrum, or gratuitous baths, 218-222. The templewas converted in 800 into the Church of S. Maria, by PojieLeo III. The remains of the altar can be seen at the east end; atthe west end is the baptistery, in the form of a Greek cross, with anapse at the top containing the raised platform with the depresseilbasin of the font in which the jjerson about to be baptized stood,whilst the minister occui^ied the platform above it and poured thewater over his head. On our left is THE FORUM OF CUPID AND ITS B
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