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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 'Sacrificial altar & stone gutter outside N.E. angle of the "Artemisium," Nemi.' The image is bordered 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, below it in pencil '3,' and below that in blue biro ' BM. Copy no 44.,' referring to copies at The British Museum. Sir John Lumley Savile (1886), 'Excavations at Nemi,' Journal of the British and American Society of Rome Sessions 1885-1886, pp68, in which savile describes the area 'N' on Giammiti's plan in Wallis's catalogue as, 'The last excavation opened was undertaken to clear the N. front of the temple in the hope of finding the Posticum or back entrance, the ancient building projecting beneath the medieval enclosure; this lead to the important discovery of a circular sacrificial altar with a gutter for carrying away the blood, the altar itself being raised on two steps running around it, its surface showing traces of having been paved in mosaic, at all events for the W. half, which appears to have been protected by a roof supported on two columns, the bases of which were in situ and close to the steps of the altar.'
Accession number: NCM 1890-1357/20 | Subjects: | religion stonework archaeology building religious architecture Roman mythology 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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