Alcuni interrogativi sul complesso augusteo palatino
In: Archeologia Classica: 64, 2013
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The Temple of Apollo-House of Augustus complex is located on the southern slope of the Palatine Hill with massive substructions. Between these buildings lies the famous ‘Corridoio delle volte crollate’, where several Campana Slabs and brick stamps of Asinius Pollio in his officinator C. Cosconio have been found. The substructures incorporated both the earlier project of Octavianus, the oldest residential complexes of the Republican time, and the sacred buildings of the Archaic period. At the foot of the Palatine Hill further significant evidence can be found, connecting the Augustan complex to the structures preserved under the Basilica of St. Anastasia and the Circus Maximus, among which we may mention a large nymphaeum. Thanks to this new evidence the Forma Urbis fragments related to the ‘Area Apollinis’ appear to show a bipartite terrace.