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215 Notes Abbreviations ASR XII.1 D. Grassinger, Die mythologischen Sarkophage 1. Achill bis Amazon. Berlin 1999. ASR XII.2 H. Sichtermann, Die mythologischen Sarkophage 2. Apollon bis Grazien, Berlin 1992. BMC H. Mattingly, Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum (multiple volumes). London. BMCR H. A. Grueber, Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum. London 1910. CAR Carta Archeologica di Roma. Tavola II. Florence 1964. CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. ILS Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae. SHA Scriptores Historiae Augustae, also known as the Historia Augusta. Introduction 1. Gibbon [1782] 1862: 216–17. 2. SHA Marcus 1.5. 3. On the military preparedness of the new coemperors, see Birley 2000: 159. 4. For recent (and disagreeing) studies of the chronology of Marcus’s wars, see Wolff 1990 and Kerr 1995. For a comprehensive narrative treatment see Birley 1993: 163–83 and 2000: 165–76. 5. SHA Marcus 13. 6. SHA Marcus 21.6–7. 7. The story is related by Lucian, Alexander the False Prophet 48. 8. Ammianus Marcellinus 29.6.1. On the dating of the invasion of Italy, see Birley 1993: 250–51 and Scheidel 1990. 9. SHA Marcus 21.10. 10. Ibid., 25.5-6. 11. Dio 72.17.1; SHA Marcus 25.1. 12. Dio 72.30.1. 13. The pyre and altar are both shown on contemporary coins: BMC Marcus 1552 for the pyre, 1580 for the altar. 14. SHA Marcus 27.9–10, SHA Commodus 12.6. See Morris (1952: 34–37) and Birley (1993: 198–210) for discussions of the main events of the later wars and their sources. 15. SHA Marcus 2.1. 16. On how Marcus’s thoughts and goals may be read from the Meditations, see Brunt 1974. 17. The list exists in two forms, called the Curiosum urbis Romae and the Notitia urbis Romae: see Jordan 1907: 2.2, 539–74, and the more detailed discussion here in chapter 1. 216 · NOTES TO PAGES 9–26 18. On Bartoli’s and Piranesi’s prints, see Petersen 1896: 12–17. 19. Mommsen 1896: 21. 20. Petersen 1896: 46 (“Ja für uns das Wichtigste ist, die Gegner der Römer zu betrachten und nach ihrer Charakteristik zu unterscheiden.”). On this aspect of Petersen’s work, see Beard 2000: 265–66. 21. Wegner 1931. 22. Petersen 1896: 18: the “kuenstlerisch freilich so ausserordentlich viel hoeher stehenden Reliefs der Trajanssaeule.” 23. See especially his comparison of the two Victory figures, Wegner 1931: 63–71. 24. Rodenwaldt 1935 (for a résumé in English see Rodenwaldt 1936). 25. For example, Pallottino 1938: 34; Hamberg 1945: 158. 26. Rodenwaldt 1936: 796. 27. Caprino et al. 1955. 28. Vermeule 1956: 317. 29. Pirson 1996; Hölscher 2000; Scheid and Huet 2000; Coarelli 2008.The reader who is interested in the details of the frieze should be aware that the quality of Petersen’s original plates is vastly superior to the reproductions in Scheid and Huet (2000) and Coarelli (2008). Chapter 1 1. On the excavations, conducted by C. Féa, see Daguet-Gagey (1998: 902). Unfortunately nothing was recorded of the structure of the house. For more on the inscription and what it reveals about the topography of the area, see chapter 2.The inscription is CIL 6.1585. 2. CIL 6.1585a, lines 5 and 7. 3. “Tegulas omnes et inpensa de casulis item cannabis et aedificiis idoneis adsigna Adrasto procuratori Columnae Divi Marci, ut ad voluptatem suam hospitium sibi ex struat,” CIL 6.1585, lines 15–21. 4. Petersen (1896) felt that a date of either 176 or 180 was possible; a date of 180 is advocated for by, for example, Caprino et al. 1955: 18; Becatti 1957: 1; Richardson 1992: 95; Maffei 1993: 302; Davies 2000: 45–48; Elsner 2000: 253–55. Birley (1993: 252–53) feels Rossi’s arguments (1977) may favor a dating of 172–75 for the contents of the frieze, but he remains undecided on the date of the column. 5. For Victor’s life, see Bird 1984: 6–13. 6. For Victor as urban prefect: Ammianus 21.10.6, ILS 2945. 7. Marcus’s gift of citizenship: Victor De Caesaribus 16.12. On Victor’s errors in general , see Bird 1984: 16–23. 8. Victor De Caesaribus 16.8. 9. Dio 72.10.4. Many coins dated TRP XXVIII bear the title IMP VI instead of IMP VII, indicating that this was awarded later in 174 rather than earlier. 10. Petersen (1896), who followed von...

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