Arco di Settimio Severo
Bound volume
Unidentified
Maker
Arco di Settimio Severo
From the album Rome to Pompeii
ca. 1880
Albumen silver print
Image: 7 15/16 × 10 1/16 in. (20.1 × 25.5 cm)
Mount: 10 11/16 × 13 7/8 in. (27.2 × 35.3 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Phil Porter
Inscriptions Printed in image, BL: 18. ARCO DI SETTIMIO SEVERO
Inscribed in black ink on mount, B and R: B. 222 \ Arch of Septimus Severus (and surrounding ruins) 75 ft. in height, 82 ft. in \ breadth, with 3 passages, erected in honor of the Emperer [sic] and his sons \ Caracalla and Geta in A.D. 203, and surmounted by a brazen chariot with \ six horses, on which stood Severus crowned by Victory. Caracalla afterwards erased \ the name of Geta whom he murdered.
Inscribed in black ink on mount, B and R: B. 222 \ Arch of Septimus Severus (and surrounding ruins) 75 ft. in height, 82 ft. in \ breadth, with 3 passages, erected in honor of the Emperer [sic] and his sons \ Caracalla and Geta in A.D. 203, and surmounted by a brazen chariot with \ six horses, on which stood Severus crowned by Victory. Caracalla afterwards erased \ the name of Geta whom he murdered.
