Roman Capri Marble Altar McManus Galleries On History Visit To Dundee Tayside Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of a Roman Capri marble altar in McManus Galleries on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Dundee, Tayside. Roman marble candelabrum base with decorative reliefs on four main sides and crouching sphinxes at the corners. The relief panels depict Apollo standing by a tripod, Artemis feeding a deer, and a sacrificial group. One panel remained unrestored and shows only the feet of three figures. Capri was first “ discovered ” by emperor Augustus in the early years of the Roman Empire. He often resided there and built many temples, villas and gardens as a way of having his own private paradise. Modern excavations however show the island to have been inhibited long before Augustus discovered it. Before the Romans, it was the Greeks who settled on Capri from the 8th century BC onwards, as evidenced by the Phoenician steps that connect Marina Grande with Anacapri, now the current town Capri. Despite its name, archaeologists have confirmed from the stone and its epigraphs, that the steps were in fact built by Greek colonists. It remained a Greek colony until Augustus took it in exchange for Aenaria (Ischia), an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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