Identifier: lifeofgreeksroma00guhl (find matches)
Title: The life of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Guhl, E. (Ernst), 1819-1862 Koner, W. (Wilhelm), 1817-1887, joint author Hueffer, Francis, 1843-1889, tr
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. 406. his riches (Fig. 406). The base is made of quarry-stone, theround tower being carefully faced with freestone, and adornedwith frieze and cornice. The decoration of the frieze is composedof alternating flowers and skulls of animals, whence the popularname of the monument Capo di Bove. A small door leadsinto the circular grave-chamber. What the original roof of the PYRAMID OF CESTIUS. 38 building has been can no more be ascertained; the battlementseen in our illustration dates from the Middle Ages, when theCaetani turned the tomb into a tower of defence, connecting itwith other fortifications still preserved. Another monument built in imitation of the Egyptian pyra-mids belongs to the age of Augustus (Fig. 407). The pyramidis of rather steep ascent, its base being 30 metres in circum-ference, its height 37 metres. It is built of a very firm com-position of mortar and small stones faced with tablets of whitemarble. The grave-chamber is comparatively small, and still
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Fig. 407. shows traces of beautiful wall-paintings. The original entrancewas effected by means of an inclined shaft about half-wayup the northern side of the pyramid. This shaft, coveredoutside with a stone, led straight to the centre of the vault,covering the grave-chamber. Columns and statues adorned theexterior. Several inscriptions record the dignities of the deceasedinmate, amongst which we count those of praetor and tribune ofthe people. His name was C. Cestius. The monument waserected to him by his heirs, one of whom was M. Agrippa. In 382 TOMBS AT PALMYRA.

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