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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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Xorba, Bastion in Second Circuit
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Cori, Temple of Hercules Plate XI ROMAX CITIES 87 the city into terraces can still be seen inside thewalls. The special fascination of Xorba, aside fromits situation, is its state of desertion. Its only useis to grow grain. There is no modern andmedieval city obliterating the old. Run a pointedstick a foot into the ground and you may hit theancient sidewalk. The original street is almoston the surface. We can see exactly how the dif-ferent levels were obtained bv lines of artificialterraces supported by retaining walls of the sameCyclopean construction as those of the outer city.I do not believe that on anv other ancient Itahansite north of Magna Graecia, the city wallsinclose so many traces of buildings. The special points of interest are the twotowers or bastions, one circular and the othersquare; the two acropolis hills with their build-ings ; the hillock overlooking the Pontiae plain;the large and small cisterns; the various gatesand posterns, with their subterranean passages. It

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