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Title: History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grisar, Hartmann, 1845-1932
Subjects: Papacy
Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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sea-borne trade of the metropolis. Thoughthe situation of this ancient emporium had been known longbefore, it is only since 1883 that it has been opened up almostin its entirety. The ancient salt stores were also quite near thePorta trigemina. Strange to say, this spot served for thestorage of salt all through the Middle Ages, and even later,the name of Salaria vecchia still recalling one of the oldestedifices in this region of Rome. In old days there was herea special wharf for the marble trade, the so-called Marmorata. Note to III. 36.—Drawn by the painter Tabanelli after a photograph of the monumentin its present state, and after Petersen, Die Marcussaule. The two statues demandedby Petersen, as well as the relievo work on the pedestal and the gallery in the back- ,ground, have been added. The relief in the third section from below of the band which jwinds round the column represents the famous intervention of Jupiter Pluvius, fromwhich arose the legend of the Thundering Legion.
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111. 36.—Column of Marcus Aurelius. no. i23) ROMAN REGIONS 175 In 1867 no less than 493 blocks of marble—some rough-hewnand some worked—were found embedded here in the river sand,not a few being of great value. The ^Emilian Portico was devotedto the corn trade. Enormous stores of corn, wine, oil, and otherfoodstuffs were piled up here in numberless horrea, or warehouses.: Among these the horrea Galbiana continued in use until quitelate in the Middle Ages. Sixteen names of warehouses, believed! to have been situated in this neighbourhood, have come downto us. Other names, such as Portions fabaria, Vicus frumen-tarius, Ansarium (custom-house), all of which belonged to thisregion, clearly prove this spot to have been the centre of tradeand business. The fourteenth district, called Transtiberim, was the onlyone on the right bank of the river, and comprised all itsinhabited territory, as well as the Tiber island. It stretchednorth as far as the Gardens of Domitia. The Janiculus andth

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