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The Castra Peregrinorum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

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The account of the Castra Peregrinorum which follows, has been compiled by Mr. Baillie Reynolds mainly from notes taken by me in 1904–9. These notes have proved inadequate in some details, largely owing to the circumstances of the discovery of the remains, which were found at considerable intervals of time and of space, so that a comprehensive view of them could never be obtained.

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Copyright © P. K. Baillie Reynolds and T. Ashby 1923. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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page 152 note 1 xvi, 12, 66.

page 152 note 2 C.I.L. vi, 231, 428, 3327, 3330.

page 153 note 1 See Ashby, T. in Cl. Rev. xix, (1905), p. 328Google Scholar, xxii (1908), p. 156 and in Builder, lxxxix, (1905, Pt. 2), p. 7Google Scholar. Huelsen, in Atti dell'Accademia Pontificia, ser. II, ix (1907), p. 410Google Scholar. Gatti, in. Bull. Comm. xxxii (1904), p. 351Google Scholar.

page 153 note 2 Reproduced from Huelsen, l.c. The compass-point given by him is wrong: his arrow points east, not north.

page 153 note 3 Indicated by Ménétrier, and reproduced by Lanciani in Bull. Comm. xiv (1897), Tav. x–xi,Google Scholar nos. 18 and 20; cf. ibid. p. 158 (from Cod. Barb. xxx, 2, now Barb. Lat. 1929).

page 153 note 4 So Huelsen, l.c. p. 412, and Lanciani, Ruins and Excavations, p. 347

page 153 note 5 Cod. Taur. v, f. 127, reproduced by Huelsen, l.c. together with the description.

page 154 note 1 Kellermann, Vigilum Romanorum latercula duo celimontana.

page 154 note 2 Also given by Huelsen, l.c. from Cod. Taur. v, f. 127, 128. A Latin version of the same was taken by de Rossi from Holstenius (Cod. Vat. 9141) and duo published in his ‘Le stazione dei Vigili,’ Ann. d. I. 1858, p. 289. He suspected its Ligorian origin. Lanciani, Ruins and Excavations, p. 339, seems to accept it as originating with Holstenius, and thereby, as Huelsen points out, lends it an authority which it does not deserve.

page 156 note 1 Bartoli in Fea, Miscell. i, p. cxxxv; Mem. 55.

page 156 note 2 C.I.L. vi, 231. Now in the Museo delle Terme in Rome.

page 156 note 3 B.S.R. vii, p. 9 (Eton drawings).

page 156 note 4 The German College was at this time at S. Apollinare, which was under the direction of the Jesuits, and the Father's name is probably omitted because Ficoroni's draughtsman, Piccini, was not quite certain of it! Lanciani in fact (Forma Urbis, p. 36) indicates the Vigna del Collegio Germanico to the south of San Stefano Rotondo, and adds the following notes of excavations: ‘Scavi Gesuiti, viii, 1690,’ ‘Scavi Mitdli, 18, iii, 1703,’ ‘Scavi, 1704-6/ Bull. Comm. 1895, p. 172. As to the first two excavations no other information is available. Bartoli says that all three pavements were found near San Stefano Rotondo ‘paucis ante annis,’ i.e. before 1706, the date of the first edition of the Pict. Ant. (Bartoli, Pict. Ant., pl. 20–22 = Holkham, ii, 26–28; Lanciani, , Bull. Comm. xxii. (1895), pp. 172Google Scholar, 173; B.S.R. viii, 42). It is not noticed in B.S.R., l.c., that Bartoli, Pict. Ant. 20 (= Holkham, ii, 27) is identical with Corsini f. 5, no. 2 (Engelmann, Antike Bilder, p. v, pl. I, 2), which is there stated to have been found in 1706, in the Castra Praetoriana (a scatement which has no value). Bartoli, Pict. Ant. 14, says that it was found near San Stefano Rotondo. Another drawing of it occurs in Cors. f. 15, no. 7 (Engelmann, pl. ii, 1), where it is said, probably wrongly, to have been found in the Vigna Moroni on the Via Appia, where excavations were going on at the same time. We may attribute to the same group the pavements figured in Eton i, 22, 29, 30. The exterior and interior of one of the tombs (a columbarium) are shown in Eton i, 24 (B.S.R. vii, pl. 1), to which I have referred the group of details of paintings Cors. f. 61–69, nos. 29–33 (Engelmann, pl. v, 5–vi, 3); cf. Eton i, 28 (Capp. 284, 33, 41, 55). Another may be the columbarium shown in Cors. f. 3, no. 1 (Engelmann. pl. I, I), which has no indication of locality. Eton v, 51–54 may also belong to this group.—T.A.

page 157 note 1 Nos. 10 (plate xiii, 2) and II in the list below.

page 157 note 2 Lanciani, Destruction cf Ancient Rome, p. 189, the Archivio di Stato.

page 157 note 3 Matranga in Bull. d. I., 1849, pp. 34–39; Lanciani, Ruins and Excavations, pp. 339–340.

page 157 note 4 Ruins and Excavations, p. 339, and in Forma Urbis, f. 36.

page 157 note 5 Top., p. 317. The reservoir of the Aqua Claudia near S. Tomaso in Formis. drawn also bv Ligorio, has nothing to do with the Castra Peregrinorum. Ashby, T. in J.R.S. ix (1919;, p. 187Google Scholar (Bodl., f. 64).

page 157 note 6 In Jordan, Top., i, 3, p. 234.

page 157 note 7 It may be noted that Dr. Ashby already fore-shadowed this in his note in Cl. Rev. 1905, p. 328.

page 157 note 8 Not shown on the plan.

page 158 note 1 I should like to take this opportunity of thanking the Rev. Mother Cecilia for very kindly showing these remains to Dr. Ashby and myself last year.

page 158 note 2 Ashby, l.c.

page 158 note 3 Average thickness of the bricks, 2·9 cm.; of the mortar, 1·7 cm.

page 158 note 4 Blocks about 8 cm. square; mortar about 1·5 cm. thick.

page 158 note 5 At M, average thickness of bricks 3·15 cm., of mortar 1·75 cm.; at O, bricks 3 cm.; mortar 2·2 cm. Length of bricks 23–25 cm.

page 158 note 6 Average thickness of bricks 3·2 cm.; of mortar 2·3 cm. Length of bricks 16–23 cm. Huelsen's plan seems to show the round niche as an apse (plan 1, fig. 13).

page 159 note 1 Average thickness of bricks 2·9 cm.; of mortar 2·2 cm.

page 159 note 2 A list is given at the end of this article, pp. 165 f.

page 159 note 3 Particularly a piece of good period, 70 cm. thick, to the east.

page 159 note 4 Gatti, N.S. 1905, p. 12, whence these measurements are taken.

page 159 note 5 The coin was not on the lowest pavement, but to the side of it and may have been dropped during a restoration of the second level.

page 160 note 1 Cl. Rev. 1905, p. 329, col. 2. Bull. Comm. 1905, p. 108.

page 161 note 1 So in Dr. Ashby's notes: in Cl. Rev. l.c. he says one was in virgin soil.

page 161 note 2 85 cm. below the bottom of the drain.

page 161 note 3 The western grave lies north to south, but the other two, south to north.

page 161 note 4 Ashby, l.c. Bull. Comm. 1905, p. 109.

page 161 note 5 Gatti in Bull. Comm. xxxvii (1909), p. 121Google Scholar. Pasqui in N.S. 1909, p. 37, for the drain beneath also.

page 162 note 1 Lanciani, N.S. 1889, pp. 19, 74, ff.

page 162 note 2 Suet. Aug. 49. In my opinion the Castra Peregrinorum is in origin an Augustan institution. —P.K.B.R.

page 162 note 3 The most significant inscriptions came from this part.

page 162 note 4 Anonymus Einsiedlensis in Monumenti dei Lincei, i, pp. 502–507. Also Lanciani, Ruins & Excavations, p. 357, followed by Richter, Top. p. 338, and by Huelsen in Jordan, , Top. i, 3, p. 239Google Scholar, and by Stuart Jones, Classical Rome, p. 242.

page 162 note 5 Aurelius Victor, Caes: 39, 44.

page 162 note 6 Amm. Marc, xvi, 12, 66.

page 163 note 1 La Basilica di S. Stefano Rotondo’ in Studi e Documenti di Storia e Diritto. vii (1886), p. 9Google Scholar.