Ara Pacis Augustae

Interior Walls

Inside of Public Approach Front
original east front

Rigorous design with exquisite carving: Like the exterior walls, the interior walls are structured within the powerful geometry of corner pilasters, base, cornice, and intermediate, horizontal stringcourse. In the interior, however, the pilaster are flat, the base plain, and the stringcourse a gentle lotus and palmette design.

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Looking down passageway beside sacificial altar to wall at left of original east doorway.

14mm lens, photo July. 2008

Same wall as in photos at left, showing important marble remnants of wooden fencing design, simple vertical laths.
Very little of the original festoon has survived.

photo July 200

This image shows the wall in the photos at left, as reconstructed in 1938, identifying the original portions.
"Fig. 138 - Interior of the framework: behind the Tellus", print by "Ennio Paoloni, Roma".
This caption is incorrect. This image shows the interior behind the Roma relief.

Scanned from Giuseppe Moretti, L'Ara Pacis Augustae; Rome, 2005 (1st ed. 1948), vol.2, fig. 138. Courtesy of the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Rome. Reproduced with appreciation.