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Fig. 43. Marks left from a statue’s feet in a pedestal from Baiae. (Photo: D. Bartoli).
Additional parallels can be found in Olaf Dräger’s Religionem Significare, a thoughtful
review of Roman marble altars and bases. Dräger’s group I D (“Arae with squared
section”) includes specimens from Rome, Aquileia, Capri, London, and Newby Hall;
their shape is identical to that of the items from Baiae and Punta Scifo. 175 Three other
statue pedestals of Proconnesian marble were found on board the Capo Granitola
shipwreck (third-fifth century A.D.). 176
A picture of the Temple of Hadrian at Ephesus published in Ward-Perkins’ 1977
Roman Architecture shows the temple façade composed of four Corinthian columns
sustaining an architrave and a central arch. Each column has a statue pedestal placed just
in front (Fig. 44).
175 Dräger 1994, 37-8, table 1.3.
176 Purpura 1996, 328-9.
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