By Larry F. Ball
Nero's palace, the Domus Aurea (Golden House), is an influential development within the background of Roman structure. since it has been incompletely studied and poorly understood due to the fact its most crucial sections have been excavated within the Thirties, Larry Ball's learn of the palace encompasses a wanted complete research of its masonry, layout, and ample historical literary facts. Highlighting the progressive recommendations of the Domus Aurea, Ball outlines their implications for the later improvement of Roman concrete structure.
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Its brick dimensions are the same as Type C, but it is denser by about one course per meter. This is a significant difference, so the identification of this wall with Type C is tentative, as labeled in Figure 11. Type C is probably the best likelihood for phase 2 in Corridor 19; otherwise it is a remnant of another pre-Neronian project on the Oppian ridge slightly before Type C. With these caveats established, hereafter I call the second pre-Neronian phase in Corridor 19 the Type C phase, simply for the sake of efficiency.
This two-phased chronology corresponds perfectly with the literary tradition concerning Nero’s palace projects, that is, Type E corresponds to the Domus Transitoria. It is not the description of Type E masonry that makes the equation between it and the Domus Transitoria, however. Rather, it is a matter of how all of the masonry phases relate to each other and, mirabile dictu, match the phases described in the extensive ancient literature concerning both AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ESQUILINE WING OF NERO’S DOMUS AUREA the Neronian palaces and architecture of other periods in this area, both before and after Nero.
A small business that only needed DISTANTLY PRE-NERONIAN PHASES one space would rent one room and the doors on either side would be barred by the overseer. If a larger business needed to rent more than one room the doors in between would be left open. 59 In sum, the Type A project was compatible in its design details with contemporary commercial buildings and was clearly disparate from the Neronian Esquiline Wing in date and original design, that is, it is a distantly pre-Neronian commercial structure reused, unimpressively, in the Neronian Esquiline Wing.