Note on a torso in Vicolo dei Catenari in Rome by Siri Sande

“…This note concerns a fragmentary torso in a courtyard of Vicolo dei Catenari, in an area between Via Arenula and Campo de’ Fiori in Rome. It is here suggested that it belonged to a statue representing a tragic actor, which may have decorated the Theatre of Pompey or the building of the Actors’ Guild, which was situated in the neighborhood.…”
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The Theater of Pompey in Rome: the Archeological Evidence, the Architecture and Destruction by James E. Packer

“…Modern buildings – particularly Palazzo Pio at Campo de’ Fiori – preserve its outline, and various fragments of its surviving structure allow a reasonably accurate reconstruction of its original appearance. …”
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