Southern Prothyron of Split’s Peristyle

The story behind the place

The Peristyle was the central court of Diocletian’s palace, where architecture helped stage the emperor’s authority. At its southern end, the Prothyron entrance gives a semicircular arch a place within the horizontal entablature beneath a triangular pediment. Later buildings and uses became part of the surviving court instead of leaving an untouched imperial scene. The miniature concentrates on that southern entrance and short colonnade returns. It does not reconstruct the whole palace or invent a Roman ceremony.

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