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Antinous' obelisk

by Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti

Well, now we have to speak of another element of the garden’s decoration, which, also if it is another of the ones on which we don’t know very much, surely belonged to the tomb. It was not excavated at Villa Adriana. It was found broken in three parts at Rome near “ Porta Maggiore”. I am speaking of ... more


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Augustus times' nymphaeum
 
The so called Throne Hall.
 
Small garden in the great Entrance Hall
 
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The Piazza d'Oro garden.
 
Canopus' gardens
 
The other tricliniar areas
 
Villa Adriana's imperial tricliniar areas: the Canopus
 
The two baths
 
Lavacra pro sexibus separavit
 
Book about Villa Adriana
 
The Great Trapeze
 
The Great Subterranean Carriages Road
 
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The Canopus
 
Antinous' tomb
 

BIOGRAPHY

 

ESPR In 1968, when she was already 46 year old, Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti, an architect who in 1946 graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the Roman University “the Sapienza, discovered a group of maritime villas built on a a series of promontory of the Lybian coast and dating from the II cent. She surveyed, studied and then published them in the “Atti della Pontificia Romana Accademia di Archeologia” and with this she began her work in the archaeological field... read more