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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 'Hemicycle (Mg on plan.) in which was found a statue of Tiberius.' This refers to the site plan. 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, below it in pencil '8,' and below that in blue biro 'BM. Copy no 39,' 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, pp67, Savile describes the hemicyle room as follows: 'On the W. side of the chapel the last shrine that was opened was precisely behind the temple, from which it was about 30 yards distant. It was of a different character from the others, being much larger, and in the form of a hemicycle having three large niches in the semi-circular wall, with two slabs of an altar under the centre niche, the pavement being of black and white mosaic of a small pattern. In this shrine and in its immediate neighbourhood were found a marble statue of Tiberius of heroic size, a double headed bust representing aquatic divinities, which professor Helbig suggested may have been intended for the Lakes Albano and Nemi; a stele belonging to it inscribed Sacr. Dian; and an inscription on a round base of volcanic basalt..' Area 'g' on Giammitt's Plan in Wallis's catalogue.
Accession number: NCM 1890-1357/27 | Subjects: | religion archaeology building religious architecture Roman mythology antiquities architecture health antiquity Italian | 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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