The house of the Vestals
ⓒRebecca Bugge, All Rights Reserved
Do not use without permission.
The home of the Roman priestesshood of the Vestals, now in ruins. The Vestals lived in this place for hundreds of years - the ruins you see here are from a house completed in 113 A.D. This open courtyard was surrounded by two storeys of colonnades. The statues are of Vestal virgins from the 3rd and 4th centuries - they were found in a pile and their original order is not known (nor if the right statue is standing on top of the right base with the right inscription). The house survived after the dissolution of the Vestals in the late 4th century and instead housed imperial officials and later on still even parts of the papal court. The house was abandoned in the 11th or 12th century.
The house of the Vestals
ⓒRebecca Bugge, All Rights Reserved
Do not use without permission.
The home of the Roman priestesshood of the Vestals, now in ruins. The Vestals lived in this place for hundreds of years - the ruins you see here are from a house completed in 113 A.D. This open courtyard was surrounded by two storeys of colonnades. The statues are of Vestal virgins from the 3rd and 4th centuries - they were found in a pile and their original order is not known (nor if the right statue is standing on top of the right base with the right inscription). The house survived after the dissolution of the Vestals in the late 4th century and instead housed imperial officials and later on still even parts of the papal court. The house was abandoned in the 11th or 12th century.