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Identifier: romancitiesinita00frot (find matches)
Title: Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923
Subjects: Cities and towns, Ancient Cities and towns -- Italy Architecture, Roman Italy -- Antiquities Dalmatia (Croatia) -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Sturgis & Walton Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ium or what-ever other civil structure first embodied this unionof Greek and Roman forms. The elevation ofthe theater shows four stories, three arched andthe lowest flat-topped. Its structure has a com-mon combination of the late Republic: the opusquadratum of the heavy piers, archivolts and but-tresses is of heavy squared blocks of the samelocal pudding-stone as the colony arch; while thecore and foundations are of irregular tufa scales,the opus incertum is of the broken river pebblesand the small and carefullv tooled blocks thatform the bulk of the facing are of calcareoustufa, not very different from the structure of thewalls of Spello, of the age of the triumvirs. The most striking feature is, however, thegreat buttresses of large slightly bossed blocksw^hich divide each main bay of the theater facadefrom top to bottom and give picturesqueness andvigor to the outlines of the facade which wouldotherwise seem somewhat flat. They make oneforget to miss the superposed Doric, Ionic and
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