{"id":12254,"date":"2025-01-22T08:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roamintheempire.com\/?p=12254"},"modified":"2025-02-06T07:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:10:34","slug":"beneventum-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roamintheempire.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/beneventum-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Beneventum, Samnium – Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Relief<\/a>
Relief reused in the Torre de Simone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Continued From Beneventum, Samnium – Part I<\/a><\/p>\n

From the Arch of Trajan, one of the streets leading due east out of the intersection in front of the arch is Viale dei Rettori (a slight uphill). About 300 meters along this street, it intersects with Via Sandro Pertini and curves to the south. On the southwest corner of this intersection is the Torre de Simone. While this tower from the city walls dates to the Lombard period, the base of the tower features several pieces of spoliated Roman marble, among which is a very prominent relief of a man carrying a vessel, probably from a funerary context.<\/p>\n

\"Theater<\/a>
Theater mask relief reused in the facade of the Rocca dei Rettori.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Continuing on Viale dei Rettori as it heads south, about 250 meters on the road intersects with Piazza Castello. On the south side of this piazza is the Rocca dei Rettori; originally a corner tower in the Lombard walls but later enlarged to a castle in the 15th<\/sup> century CE. There is a large amount of Roman era spolia built into the former tower portion of the castle. These are particularly plentiful on the east side. Portrait reliefs from funerary monuments, inscriptions of various types, architectural elements, and other reliefs such as a horse and theater masks, are all visible in the fa\u00e7ade. To the west of the tower is a modern statue of Trajan, and behind it against the castle, a series of four Roman milestones. The milestones are pretty worn, and the inscriptions aren\u2019t terribly legible. No information on these is available on site. The site of the Rocca dei Rettori, which is also the high point of the historic center\/Roman Beneventum, was also apparently the location of a castellum aquae<\/em> in the Roman period. Reportedly the remains of this structure are visible somewhere in the gardens, but I couldn\u2019t find any trace of these in the publicly accessible areas. There were some various architectural fragments in the garden, though.<\/p>\n