Plan of the animal cages built by Domitian for the Amphitheater... [ With elevation and section of the buried portion. The so-called Curia Hostilia was actually the substructure of the Temple of Claudius, near SS. Giovanni e Paolo],  from Le Antichità Romane (Roman Antiquities), tome 4, tavola 53
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Le Antichità Romane, tome 4
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi|Angelo Rotili
Artist bio: Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome| 
Artist role: Artist|Publisher
Artist nationality: Italian|Italian
Date: published 1756–57
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: sheet: 21 1/4 x 31 1/2 in. (54 x 80 cm)
plate: 15 9/16 x 23 7/16 in. (39.5 x 59.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library
Accession year: 1941