BATHS OF TRAJAN

TERME DI TRAIANO
Via delle Terme di Traiano

104/109 Apollodorus of Damascus for Trajan (98/117) after the fire that destroyed the Domus Aurea in the year 104

Whole area 330 x 315 m (1,090 x 1,030 feet)
Central part 212 x 190 m (700 x 620 feet)

First complete example of “great baths” in Rome with exedra and better layout in relation to the sun and to the prevailing winds like the bathing complexes of Ostia, Caracalla, Diocletian and Decius

The Baths of Titus and the Baths of Nero were oriented north south, affected perhaps by the adjacent buildings
The tank of the baths was the large room known as SETTE SALE (Seven Rooms), actually nine corridors (the last two were discovered in 1760, but the original name lingered) of same width but of different length, oriented north south as the Domus Aurea

MUSEUM OF THE IMPERIAL FORA

FORI IMPERIALI

Imperial Fora

Via dei Fori Imperiali

Successive extensions of the republican Roman Forum in the imperial period, with the same functions, although in larger spaces enriched with decorations, for the purpose of public utility and propaganda of the emperors

Museo dei Fori Imperiali
Museum of the Imperial Fora

In 2007 this interesting museum of Roman architecture was opened in the ancient halls of Trajan's Market. The exhibit emphasizes the ancient volumes and functionality of the buildings of the Imperial Fora

"Head portrait, reworked as Constantine" in Carrara marble beginning of fourth century AD, found in 2005

"Statue male standing headless with breastplate" about 112 A.D. in tasio marble

"Frieze figured with Cupids", "Architrave in bands with panels", "Coffered ceiling" in Carrara marble about 113 AD, from the first order of the cella's interior decoration of the Temple of Venus Genitrix in the Forum of Caesar

"Decorations of the exterior and interior of the Temple of Venus Genitrix"

"Right foot of a female statue of Victory" about 2 BC in gilded bronze, found in the Forum of Augustus

"Fragments of the Colossus of Augustus" and "Fragments of marble slabs painted" that adorned the walls of the Room of the Colossus