• The Meta Sudans, literally meaning...
  • The fountain was obviously damaged in the Middle Ages because it already appears as a ruin in early views of the Colosseum. Photos from the end of the 19th...
  • The fountain was obviously damaged in the Middle Ages because it already appears as a ruin in early views of the Colosseum. Photos from the end of the 19th...
  • Meta Sudans is a marble-faced fountain and erected by Domitian (between ad 89 and 96 A.D.) in front of the Via Sacra. It was the largest monumental fountain...
  • Fronting the Coloseum and the Arco Contantino it can be seen a rounded design base and a white marker at the center. That was the supposed position...
  • Roman fountain near the Colosseum, its last vestiges demolished in the 1930s. What it may have looked like, based on coins, sculpture, old engravings.
  • It was a monumental fountain of the Ancient Rome close to the Colosseum in front of the Arch of Constantine. The name indicates the Meta conical shape...
  • The invaluable Roma Ieri Oggi site continues to upload photographs of old Rome, including photographs of vanished sites like the ancient fountain, the Meta Sudans.