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Identifier: handbookofromeca00john (find matches)
Title: A handbook of Rome and the Campagna
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: John Murray (Firm)
Subjects: Rome (Italy) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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mulcebant cantu, lucoquo volabant.Flectere iter sociis, terraeque adverteve prorasImperat, et laetiis fluvio .sueccdit opaco. Aen. vii. 25. (Ferry hence to the Isola Sacra(Ete. 55).) About a mile below the Torre Boac-ciana rises tiie octagonal Torre di San.Michele, built in 15(j9 by Iius V., now a lighthouse. Eettu-ning to the house of the cus-tode, and bearing to the rt., we jiassthe ruins of a large Private House,with a peristylium of tufa columns;once covered with pamted stucco.The square room opening on the S. ofthe corridor is considered to be asummer triclinium. VVe now reach the excavations of1885-86, which were intended to un-cover a space 220 yds. long, separating The Cajipagna. Route 56.—Ostia. 447 the Theatre from the Temple of Vul-can. About half the work was iiccoin-pli.shud, revealing just au acre of theaucieut city. Tlie buildings dis- covered are indicated in the accom-panying plans, in tlie index of whichare also specified the principal detailsof each construction.
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IsriLDINGS DISCOVERED IN 188G BETWEEN THE THEATliE AND TEMPLE OFVULCAN (OSTIA). A. House probably of L. Apulcius JIarccllus. B. Milhraic Temple. C. Four tetrastyle temples on tbc same terrace.H. AVorkshops. E. Street and Piazza. 1. Ancient piscina used as corn store imder the Empire. a. .Stairs. b. Irolhyruui c. Atrium. d. Impluvium. e. Tablinum.g. Latrina.; li. Bedrooms. i. Mosaic pavement. k. Mosaic of Xaiads ou Sea Horses. 1. Kitchen uitli passage leading toMitbraeum. The^Mithraic Temple (locked) is an have been jircviously excavated, in csijecially interesting discovery, and the time of Pius VI., when the chief although it is to be cleplored that all objects of art and autitiuity were ab- this quarter of the ancient city should stracted, still we must led grateful to 448 Houte 56.—Mithraic Temple. Sect. II. the directors of these researches forcovering up this mysterious place ofworship again, without allowing theemblematic mosaic pavement, benches,and walls to be injured. It is

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