The AAR-Barbara Bini Collection of photographs on Rome consists of ca. 1000 images including contacts, photographic prints and duplicates. A selection from positives has been cataloged and corresponding negatives digitized.
Research Institutions' archives from which new prints were made include: The Getty Research Institute Special Collections; Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut (DAI), Athens and Rome; and the American School of Classical Studies, Athens.
Work described: contact from a 12 shot sheet. All images from different details on the Arch of Constantine, Attic South, Lustratio panel: scene of a celebration with the army at the beginning of a military campaign, the Emperor presides over the ceremony, using a portable tripod-mounted altar. Depicted a bull, sheep, and pig sacrificed in the rite called the suovetaurilia; soldiers with flags and ensigns stand behind a musician and an incense bearer (camillus). Pompeianus appears behind Marcus/Constantine, with his head above that of the bull.