. Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. iterthe Avenger. Some of the finest worksthat the world has ever roof-ing of the Pantheon of Jupiter Ultor thatwas built by Agrippa (Pliny, N. 24). The repairs commenced bySeptimius Severus and Caracalla werecompleted by Alexander Severus, whobuilt his baths close by. We call atten-tion to a coin of this emperoi, which re-presents the temple and its enclosure on the reverse ; on the obverseis the emperors i)ortrait, and the legen
. Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. iterthe Avenger. Some of the finest worksthat the world has ever roof-ing of the Pantheon of Jupiter Ultor thatwas built by Agrippa (Pliny, N. 24). The repairs commenced bySeptimius Severus and Caracalla werecompleted by Alexander Severus, whobuilt his baths close by. We call atten-tion to a coin of this emperoi, which re-presents the temple and its enclosure on the reverse ; on the obverseis the emperors i)ortrait, and the legend imp . c . m . avr . sev .ALEXANDER. AUG. On the coin the columns are placed close oneither flank, and two are omitted, to show the seated statue ofJupiter in the temple, which statue is now in the Hall of Busts inthe Vatican Museum, and is a copy of the celebrated Jupiter ofPhidias. The fact that the Pantheon was originally built as a sudatoriumhas been proved to a certainty by the excavations made in the suda-torium of the Baths of Caracalla. There we have, as it were, thePantheon in mins. It is slightly smaller, the diameter being 125. BY THE TIBKR. 151
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