The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome: A Companion Book for Students and Travelers |
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Ædes Agrippa Ancient Rome Antonio Nibby arch Augustus Basilica Julia baths Battista bricks bronze building built Bull Cælian Cæsar called Campus Martius Capitoline Caracalla Carlo Fea century church Circus Claudius Clivus Coliseum columns Corpus Inscr described discovered discovery Domitian Domus edifice Emperor Esquiline excavations feet Flaminio Flaminio Vacca Forma Urbis Forum fragments Francesco gardens gate Giovanni ground Hadrian hall Heinrich Jordan hill Horti Imperial inscription Inst Julius Julius Cæsar Ligorio LITERATURE Luigi marble Maria metres metres long Monte monuments Museo Museum Nero Notizie palace Palatine Palazzo Pantheon pavement pedestal Piazza Pietro Pius Pope Porta portico remains restored Rodolfo Lanciani Roma Roma antica Roman Rossi ruins Sacra Sacra Via Sangallo Scavi Septimius Severus side statue stone street substructures Temple Templum Thermæ Tiber Tiberius tion Titus tomb Topographie Trajan travertine Uffizi Vatican Vestals Vicus Vigna Villa Visconti walls Wolfgang Helbig
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Page 379 - Sixty-four vomitories (for by that name the doors were very aptly distinguished) poured forth the immense multitude; and the entrances, passages, and staircases were contrived with such exquisite skill, that each person, whether of the senatorial, the equestrian, or the plebeian order, arrived at his destined place without trouble or confusion.
Page 33 - puticuli" in the burial-grounds of the Esquiline. Its use must have been given up before the end of the period of the Kings, in consequence of the discovery of better quarries on the right bank of the Tiber, at the foot of the hills now called Monte Verde. . . . They cover a space one mile in length and a quarter of a mile wide on each side of the valley of Pozzo Pantaleo. In fact, this valley, which runs from the Via Portuensis toward the lake of the Villa Pamphili, seems to be artificial; I mean,...
Page 565 - ... readiness to sail from the various harbors of the Mediterranean at a moment's notice. Having taken all these precautions, and insured the success of his stratagem as far as human foresight could, Nero set the whole city into a blaze of fire, and did it so neatly that although, of the fourteen regions, or wards, into which Rome had been divided by Augustus, three were annihilated completely and seven for the greater part, yet not a single human life seems to have been lost in the gigantic conflagration.
Page 589 - BC 45, that division of time which, with a few modifications, is still employed by all Christian nations, and received from its author the name of the Julian Year. The solar year, or the period between two vernal equinoxes, was supposed to contain...
Page 589 - When an event did not happen exactly on the Calends, Nones, or Ides of any month, they calculated the day by reckoning backwards from the next division of the month. Thus, if it happened between the Calends and the Nones, it was said to take place so many days before the Nones ; if it happened between the Nones and Ides, it was said to take place so many days before the Ides ; if it happened after the Ides, it was said to take place so many days before the Calends of the ensuing month. In the second...
Page 369 - Egypt, and which is perhaps the most striking monument at once of the material and the moral degradation of Rome under the empire, ' ' was commenced by the Emperor Vespasian in AD 72, and finished by his son, Titus, in AD 80. The captive Jews, led in chains to Rome after the destruction of...
Page 523 - Grain-laden vessels were of large tonnage, like the ship mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles as having on board, besides its cargo, two hundred and fifty souls. We may judge of their number from the fact that during a fierce gale in the time of Nero not less than two hundred vessels were lost in the roads of Ostia. It seems that wheat was not transported in bulk, for fear of the cargo shifting to one side or the other, but in amphorae or earthen jars.
Page 47 - For four hundred and forty-one years," says Frontinus, "the Romans contented themselves with such water as they could get from the Tiber, from wells, and from springs. Some of these springs are still held in great veneration on account of their health-restoring qualities, like the spring of the Camoenae, that of Apollo, and that of Juturna.
Page 102 - Rome during some recent excavations on the site of the House of the Vestals at the foot of the Palatine. The ''find" consisted of 830 Anglo-Saxon pennies, ranging from AD 871 to 947.
Page 480 - ... known for certain (from the stamp on the bricks in various parts of the building) that the rotunda was built by Hadrian. Difficulties with regard to the relations between the two parts of the Pantheon remain unsolved, but on the following points Professor Lanciani claims to speak with certainty : — (1) "The present Pantheon, portico included, is not the work of Agrippa, but of Hadrian, and dates from AD 120124. (2) " The columns, capital, and entablature of the portico, inscribed with Agrippa's...