COLLECTION NAME:
Splendore Dell' Antica Roma
Record
Title:
Leaf 95 - Naumachia Domitiani
Creator:
Lauro, Giacomo
Description:
The Naumachia of Domitian. A Naumachia refers to a representation of a naval battle among the Romans, and also to the places where such exhibitions took place.
Description:
The verso of this leaf contains text in three languages with page title in Italian: Naumachia di Domitiano.
Description:
Domitian (Titus Flavius Caesar Domitianus Augustus) was Roman emperor from 81 AD to 96 AD. He was the third and last emperor of the Flavian dynasty. He organized a naumachia inside the Colosseum around 85 AD, and a second one in the year 89 AD in a new basin dug beyond the Tiber.
Subject:
Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities.
Subject:
Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Subject:
Architecture, Roman -- Italy -- Rome.
Subject:
Naval battles -- Italy -- Rome.
Subject:
Domitian, Emperor of Rome, 51-96.
Publisher:
Andrea Fei, Roma, 1625
Date:
1625
Coverage:
Rome (Italy)
Coverage:
Italy
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
28.5 x 21 cm
Format/Medium:
Engravings
Source:
Splendore dell'antica Roma, in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rights:
Though this item is believed to be in the Public Domain, copyright may have been retained by the authors or creators of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
