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Description: | Sepia photograph taken from Savile's original glass plate negatives of the excavations at The Temple of Diana, Nemi, Italy in 1885. This image depicts the 'North front and N.W. angle of the basement of the "Artemisium".' The image is bounded by a card border, on to which the label is stuck. The reverse of the image is stamped with the 'Corporation of Nottingham Art Museum' crest in purple ink, above it in pencil '1/2 pl. glass neg no 91 box 6,' below it also in pencil '24,' and below that in blue biro 'no. BM. Copy,' referring to copies at The British Museum. See also NCM 1890-1357/23 which depicts the same area of excavation but from a different angle. Sir John Lumley Savile (1886), 'Excavations at Nemi,' Journal of the British and American Society of Rome Sessions 1885-1886, pp63, Savile wrote of this trench, 'On opening a trench to the south outside the enclosure and consequently close to the entrance of the temple, a number of interesting objects in bronze were found, among them a large sacrificial ladle (NCM 1890-1355/636), the weight of a steelyard (NCM 1890-1355/657) and 36 bronze statuettes, several of considerable beauty, chiefly on nymphs or votaries of Diana, and one rude presentation of Diana Lucifera with a torch in one hand and a bow in the other and a quiver on her shoulder… The bronze sole of a sandal (NCM 1890-1355/680) was also found here and several large rings,’ possibly dog collars according to Prof. Henzen, or armlets.' (Area L on the plan in Wallis’s catalogue).
Accession number: NCM 1890-1357/9 | Subjects: | religion archaeology religious architecture Roman antiquities architecture health | Temporal: | 1885 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | excavator/photographer Savile Lumley/Lord John | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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