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TR I U MPHA L ARC H OF SEPTI M I US SEVE RUS.<br />
PLAT E X I.<br />
VI EW OF THE EAST SIDE OF THE ARCH, TOWARD THE ROMAN FORUM.<br />
PIWCRDI~\0 from the An;h <strong>of</strong> Titus, which was described in the first Number <strong>of</strong> this Work, and<br />
pursuingthecourx<strong>of</strong>thcSou:redWay,wefindoothewestside<strong>of</strong>thcForum,andatthe lOot <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Capitoline Hill,theAn:hoiSEPTIMIUS SEVERUS. It is c:onstructcd <strong>of</strong> whire matbll:,and has<br />
lhro;:aperttii"CIIOI'opcnings.communiealingwithcacbothcrbylater.:U;arches.<br />
Bythcintaiptionontheatticwcan::inf~lha t theSenate:andRoma n l'eopledcdicatedthis<br />
Triumplul An;h in honour <strong>of</strong> lhe Emperor Septimius Sevcrus. fOI' the scvc:r::al victorie~ obtained b}' him<br />
intheEast,inc:onjunctioowithhi•lW'o$0R$,CaracalbandGeta.<br />
Spanianusn::l:neslkltCarnca.lla'shatn:d tow;trds hisbrother(li;Q.Sjoncd himlOer.ueGeta'sname<br />
from all public monumeni.B; and this is confirmed by Fontanini, who discovered lhat the fourth line,<br />
Hoptimi., fortissimisque prindpibus,~ was sunk below theonlim~.rysurf:u:c <strong>of</strong> the m.arble; and by mon:<br />
c,~.rdulobservatiOtl.,hefoundtheholes<strong>of</strong>thecramP"that!ieeuredtheoriginalinscription,and trae:ed it<br />
to have been MEt l'ublio Septimio Ge~ Czs. J>ontif. " 1\ similar erasure <strong>of</strong> the m~.me, and also <strong>of</strong> a<br />
basrelief<strong>of</strong> thefigure<strong>of</strong>Geta,isobservabk intheGold.smithiArcb<br />
T hisArchisdcroratedwith four fluted oolumns on each from <strong>of</strong> thcCompositeOrdcr,dcUched<br />
from the building and placed on pedesWs having pilasters behind them, and iUJiprting a. rich<br />
cnublatu~.ovcrwhichisanatticextendingunintcrru ptedlyinonepanclto theoute r col u mns.<br />
lktweo:n th..c:piloutersarebasreliefs,which,though<strong>of</strong> b;uldesign,nothnvingtheadvant.o.ge<strong>of</strong><br />
pc:rspectiv.:in thdrdi~tribution, and executed in mth.er an inferior manner, yet an: vcryinten:sting,as<br />
they represent the luiXCSiiful expeditions <strong>of</strong> Severus against the l'arthians, Arabians, &c.; :.nd the<br />
.,v.,ntsreo:ordedonthemrnaybo:de>.tlytrae«!byrefaencctotbeaccounts<strong>of</strong>ancientauthors.•<br />
Onbotbfa.ees<strong>of</strong>theArch,aboV