Identifier: churchofsmariaan01rush (find matches)
Title: The church of S. Maria antiqua
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Rushforth, G. McN. (Gordon McNeil), 1862-1938 Ashby, Thomas, 1874-1931. Classical topography of the Roman campagna
Subjects: Santa Maria Antiqua (Church : Rome, Italy) Church decoration and ornament Art, Byzantine
Publisher: London : (Macmillan & Co.)
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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of the highroad is certain, for itspavement, 290 m. in width, with crepidines 45 cm. in width on each side, can still be followed forsome way. We were told that on the further side of Pantano it could be seen E. of Monte Falconegoing towards Colonna. It, or that mentioned p. 194, n. 2, may be the road spoken of by Fea(Gabio, 10) as crossing the basin of Pantano. 2 Numbered respectively 2 and 3 in Viscontis plan. 3 The wife of Domitian. Fig. 9. _^PIInth Moulding of Podium at backof Temple, Gabii. 186 The British School at Rome. fil(iae). This is the view of Visconti. Canina (Edifizi,v. p. 92, n. 11)maintains that this small chamber cannot have been an Augusteum, whichshould have stood opposite to the Curia. A little way to the E. of the Forum Canina marks baths in his plan.Of these no traces are now visible, and no description of them exists.We know that in the excavations of 1792 five lead water-pipes were found(C.I.L. xiv. 28i5-28i9 = xv. 7832, 7861b, 7863, 7864, 7868a), the first of
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25 30 33 40 ISMitres- I I I I 1 Fig. 10.—Plan of the Forum, Gabii. which bears the inscription : Aiirelhts Alexander proxiimus) ab epistul(is)Lat(inis) ; Digitius fecit, while the other four give merely the name of themaker of the pipe. Unfortunately, we have no details as to the preciselocality of their discovery, so that we cannot tell what was the propertyof which Aurelius Alexander was the owner. Other buildings in theneighbourhood are spoken of vaguely by Visconti (pp. cit, p. 19), in the ruins Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.—I. 187 of one of which were found two fine columns of alabastro rosso fioritowhich passed into the possession of Pope Pius VI., also a bust of GordianusPius III. (pp. cit. p. 36 and tav. vi., No. 14), while in another building wasfound a mosaic pavement, which was bought by Milord Harvey Conte diBristol (op. cit. p. 19, n. 48). The Greek sepulchral inscription Kaibel, I.G.I. 1319 was also found inthe neighbourhood at the same period. All thes

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