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Plan of the Ruin of the Portico of Philip
12020-11-03T11:27:12-08:00Avery Freemanb9edcb567e2471c9ec37caa50383522b90999cba228491from Volume 04 of Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Opereplain2020-11-03T11:27:12-08:00Internet Archiveimagepiranesi-ia-vol4-048.jpgAvery Freemanb9edcb567e2471c9ec37caa50383522b90999cba
1media/4 Title page cropped.jpg2018-11-23T19:26:50-08:00Jeanne Brittone120651dde677d5cf1fd515358b14d86eb289f11Roman Antiquities (4 of 4)Zoe Langer14Antichità Romane, Tomo Quartoimage_header2022-12-15T03:21:33-08:00Zoe Langeref2dd00d773765a8b071cbe9e59fc8bf7c7da399
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12021-11-08T15:21:32-08:0095. Ruin of the Portico of Philip8plain2022-03-22T06:51:10-07:00 Avanzo del Portico di Filippo, il quale rimane sulla sinistra della facciata della chiesa di Santa Maria in Cacaberis. I moderni scrittori lo suppongono per il Portico di Gneo Ottavio, ma nel rapportarci un passo di Plinio, ove si nota che il Portico di Ottavio corinthia sit appellata a capitulis aeris columnarum, smentiscono la loro supposizione, perchè le colonne che inoggi rimangono del Portico in questione, hanno i capitelli dorici di travertino, come dimostro nel Tomo IV alla Tavola XLVI. Che poi un tal Portico sia di Filippo lo dimostrerò nella grande Icnografia di Roma antica che son per dare alla luce.
Ruin of the Portico of Philip which remains on the left side of the facade of the church of Santa Maria in Cacaberis. Modern writers suppose that the ruin is the Portico of Gnaeus Octavius. However, relating a passage from Pliny, where he describes that the Portico of Octavius was called Corinthian from the bronze capitals of the columns, disproves their argument because the columns of the Portico in question remaining today have Doric capitals made of travertine, as I demonstrate in Volume IV in Plate XLVI. That this Portico was in fact of Philip, I will demonstrate in the large Map of Ancient Rome that I am about to publish.
