Sacrificial Altar
Outside of Crowning Scrolls and Interior Frieze of Left Wing
The left wing, inside and out, best conveys the complexity and richness of the sacrificial altar crowns.
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Outside-left of powerful, vigorous, vegetal scroll. photo Oct. 2008 |
Outside-center of powerful, vigorous, vegetal scroll. photo Oct. 2008 |
Outside-right of powerful, vigorous, vegetal scroll. photo Oct. 2008 |
Outside of powerful vegetal scroll above lion-griffin at back of left wing. photo Oct. 2008
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"Plate 6 - Longitudinal section of the reconstructed monument - Ennio Paolini". Vertical cross-section from front (at left) to back, showing relation of sacrificial altar to the enclosing precinct wall. Scanned from Giiuseppe Moretti, L'Ara Pacis Augustae; Rome, 2005 (1st ed. 1948), vol.2, pl.6, with appreciation.
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Outside of powerful vegetal scroll above lion-griffin at back of left wing. photo Oct. 2008
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Inside of left wing resting on the hypothetically reconstructed u-shaped form, sometimes called the "prothesis", with recombant lion-griffin, crowning scrolls, and relief of vestal virgins. photo May 2010 |
Inside of left wing. photo July-Oct. 2008
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Sacrificial procession of 6 vestals virgins moving from left to right (decreasing in height, and presumably age), flanked by male figures. photo July 2008
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