The Living and the Monumental on the Anaglypha Traiani

Dispatches from the Home Front: The Anaglypha Panels in Rome

“… 3 See Brown 2020, 607–10 for a recent introduction to the panels, now in the Curia Julia. For further investigation, see e.g.…”

“… 12 From its inception, modern scholarship on the Anaglypha has attempted ardently to connect the depicted structures to historical buildings on the Forum Romanum . Nevertheless, in over a century no unequivocal evidence has been offered to connect a depiction to an excavated building, and numerous topographic difficulties remain; on these difficulties, see most recently Brown 2020, 612–13; below, n. 50. For concision, I point the reader seeking more information on the various Forum Romanum structures and monuments discussed in the present context to the relevant articles in the Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae (Steinby 1993–2000).…”

“… 14 For targeted discussion and bibliography, see Brown 2020. Ancient sources mention potentially four different famous fig trees in or around the Forum (DeRose Evans 1991, esp.…”

“…800–1). For the multivalency of the Anaglypha figs trees with respect to these various historical trees, see Brown 2020, esp. 616, 620.…”

“… 16 The best known and most extensive argument in favour of this interpretation is Hammond 1953; see also Brizio 1872, 319–20; Carter 1910, 317; Rudiger 1973, 165, 168; Torelli 1982, 91; Koeppel 1986, 20; Kuttner 1995, 45, 49–51; Quante-Schöttler 2002, 159; Wolfram Thill 2012, 159–63; Brown 2020, 610–11.…”