Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0287Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is the ruins of the Forum of Rome. Above the image "T426 (Star)" is printed, below the image "3450 The Forum Where Once Centered the Power and Glory of Ancient Rome, Italy." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
3450
THE FORUM, WHERE ONCE CENTERED THE POWER AND GLORY THAT WAS ROME'S
The structures of the Forum, situated at the foot of the Capitoline Hill, were erected during a period of more than five hundred years, dating from the legendary days of Rome to its imperial supremacy. Their total ruin dates from the Eleventh Century. This small space has been called the cradle of the two main features of civilization, law and order.
In the background is the gigantic Colosseum that accommodates 85,000 spectators and where the brutal gladiatorial combats were held. To the right of the Colosseum is the arch of Titus. Farther to the right is the wooded summit of the Palatine Hill. In the earliest times the Via Sacra is supposed to have run from a point on this side of the Colosseum directly toward us to the eastern end of the Forum.
Those eight granite columns directly beofre us are part of the Temple of Saturn. The first temple was built here in 497 B.C.; for centuries it was the public Treasury.
Nearest us on this side of the Forum is that spacious pavement of the Basilica Julia, founded by Julisu Caesar, B.C. 46. The building was used as a place for holding the law courts and as an exchange. It was from the roof of this bascilica that the mad Emperor Caligula used to throw gold and silver coins into the Forum.
Beyond, on a rasied superstructure, may be seen the three beautiful Corinthian columns belonging to the Temple of Castor and Pollux, deciated 482 B.C., to the twin gods, in remembrance of their aid in defeating the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus.
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