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Rome: Colosseum, Meta Sudans and Arch of Constantine - 1860 - Imgur

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1850 view of the Meta Sudans and the Arch of Constantine.  Read More: colosseumrometickets.com/meta-sudans/

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The Meta Sudans in a period photograph, before the demolitions ordered by #Mussolini for reasons relating to traffic. Read More: colosseumrometickets.com/meta-sudans/

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Reconstruction of Meta Sudans (the second, a copper engraving of 1699, by Pietro Santi Bartoli) Read More: colosseumrometickets.com/meta-sudans/ 

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Meta Sudans illustration by Lafrery (1593). Read More: colosseumrometickets.com/meta-sudans/

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The Meta Sudans from the Arch of Titus

The Meta Sudans from the Arch of Titus

An unusual angle on the vanished monument, in this photograph from 1878 by John Henry Parker.   Sadly the resolution is low.  Via Twitter here.

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An 1850 photograph of the Palatine and Meta Sudans by Rev. John Shaw Smith

An 1850 photograph of the Palatine and Meta Sudans by Rev. John Shaw Smith

This interesting item was posted on Twitter here. Rev. John Shaw Smith, View of the Arch of Constantine, the Meta Sudans, and the Palatine Hill. 1850. Photographs of the Meta Sudans are always welcome.  This one is at an unusual angle and indicates that the destruction facing the Colosseum was not flat 180°, as it often appears in photographs, but nearer 150°. The photographer, the Rev. John Shaw…

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Peeking through the arch of Constantine - another view of the Meta Sudans

Peeking through the arch of Constantine – another view of the Meta Sudans

Another photograph care of Roma Ieri Oggi depicts a US actress, Aloha Wanderwell, with husband, in front of the Arch of Constantine in 1928.  The angle is square on to the arch, unusually, so we can see the Meta Sudans particularly clearly through the arch. Nice!

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