Ara Pacis Augustae

Drawings, Prints, and 20th C. Photographs

1909 Studniczka

This was the next major publication on the Ara Pacis; following Petersen's 1902 two volume publication, Sieveking's 1907 article, and Cannizzaro's important 1907 account of the 1903 excavation. Several of the most important photographs in this new publication had already been published by Petersen, and Durm’s remarkable 1904 drawing had already been published by Dissel. Also, the famous photograph of block III of the original south processional frieze, which included the figures of two flamines, had been published by Sievking in 1907. This shows the block as discovered in the narrow passageway of the tunnel under the Via in Lucina, along the south side of the Piazza Fiano (see Plate 2, fig. 2 below). This block was not excavated until 1937. Nevertheless, a number of key fragments, 4 enlarged details, and a few related materials were here published for the first time.

Scanned from Franz Studniczka, "Zur Ara Pacis", in  Abhandlungen der Philologisch-Historischen Klasse der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften,  (Abb, Sächs. Ges. der Wissenschaften). Vol. 27, No.26, 1909.  Text pp. 901-944, plus 34 images on 9 pages of plates.  Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1909. Scanned from a copy in the library of the American Academy in Rome. Reproduced courtesy of the American Academy in Rome.

Captions are literal translations from the German (these 2 pages added August 2012).

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"Plate 1
1. Vallesche reliefs in Villa Medici.
2. Larger image of the relief 1 right.
3. Portraits of Caesar Claudius:

Braccio new 18; Braccio new 117; Lateran 208 after Arndt, Portr. 707".

"[Plate 2-left page]
1. Backside of plate XVIII

in the Termemuseum.
2. Plate XVII in the underground

of Palazzo Fiano".

"Plate 2
3. Eastern half of the south frieze

in the Uffizi.
4. Larger image of figure 3, after molding".

"[Plate 3-left page]
1. Votive relief in Venice
2. Inside of the fragment with

the fig tree in the Terme Museum.
3. Fragments from the relief of the

Ara Pacis north of the west door,

Plate XIX, 2. Vienna and Therme Museum (reduction 1:20).
4. On the Ara Casali, in the Vatican.
5. Denarius of Fostlus, Berlin, enlarged".

"Plate 4
1/2. Augustus in the south frieze

of the Ara Pacis.
3. Augustus of Prima Porta".

"Plate 5
6. Inside of the piece
7. From the Augustus altar in the Vatican.
8. Relief of the Ara Pacis south of the west door, Plate VIII, 8, in the Therme Museum (reduced 1:20).
9. Quattrocento copy of Roman

sarcophagus reliefs in the Uffizi".

"[Plate 6-left page]
1. On coins of the Ara Pacis, enlarged: Nero, Vienna; Nero, Paris;

Domitian, Paris.
2. Tellus relief of the Ara Pacis,

south side of east door,

Plates XU, X. Uffizi (reduced 1:20).
3. Eleusinisches vase painting in Lyon".

"Plate 6
4. Coin of Nero in Berlin.
5. Relief on the Arch of Beneventum,

Senators and Populus.
6. Coins of Augustus, in the year 28

after Christ and after his death.
7. Fragments of the relief

of the Ara Pacis

north of the east door, Plate VII, 1,

Therme Museum (reduced 1:20).
[8-9.] Larger illustrations of the

fragments above, Plate VII.
8. Outerside, 9. Innerside".

"Plate 7
Head of a young god (Honos)

from the Ara Pacis

in the Therme Museum".

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