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Hadrian's Library was created by Roman Emperor Hadrian in AD 132 on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens. [1] [2]The building followed a typical Roman forum architectural style, having only one entrance with a propylon of Corinthian order, a high surrounding wall with protruding niches (oikoi, exedrae) at its long sides, an inner courtyard surrounded by columns and a decorative oblong ...
The Victoria Romana from Hadrian's Library (Greek: Νίκη της Βιβλιοθήκης του Αδριανού) is a large sculpture of the Greek goddess of victory Nike (known to the Romans as Victoria) that once adorned Hadrian's Library, a large library built in Athens by the Roman Emperor Hadrian (r. 117–138 AD) during the second ...
It was destroyed in 267 AD during the Heroulian invasion and in the 5th century it was incorporated into a large peristyle building. Hadrian's Library: Athens: Roman Greece: 267 Heruli: The library was seriously damaged by the Herulian invasion of 267 and repaired by the prefect Herculius in AD 407–412. Library of Antioch: Antioch: Seleucid ...
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The building has also been interpreted as the emperor’s private library, following an archaeological comparison with the Stoa of Hadrian in Athens, a monumental library he built in the same years, and which had a large central exedra with niches for statues flanked by large rooms. The numerous niches visible in the side corridors of the ...
The building was commissioned in the years 110s CE by a consul of the Roman Empire, Tiberius Julius Aquila Polemaeanus, as a funerary monument for his father Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, former proconsul of Asia, [1] [2] and completed during the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, sometime after Aquila's death.
The Santa Fe Historical Railway Museum (SFHRM) is embarking on a new project to repurpose the historic Potter County Library building, located on the downtown courthouse square in Amarillo, into a ...
The Arch of Hadrian (Greek: Αψίδα του Αδριανού, romanized: Apsida tou Adrianou), most commonly known in Greek as Hadrian's Gate (Greek: Πύλη του Αδριανού, romanized: Pyli tou Adrianou), is a monumental gateway resembling—in some respects—a Roman triumphal arch.