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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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Arpiniim, City Gate or Jciniis c. 41 B. C. or earlier
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Arpinum, Colony Arch (half flooded) c, 41 B.C. ROMAN CITIES 197 ber of tombs. It would be quite well worth ex-cavating, for Aquinum was considered a not un-important city in the age of Strabo and from itsposition must have partaken of the art both ofCampania and Rome. Quite a stretch of city-wall, in courses of regu-lar travertine blocks, joins to so-called Porta S.Lorenzo which stands, in excellent preservation,across the modern road. It is a plain, impressivegate, but its value is even more historic thanaesthetic. Delbriick calls it a double gate ofServian type, which would imply an early date,preceding the Roman colony. With this infer-ence I cannot agree, because its masonry is of atype common under the triumvirs. Even as latein the reign of Augustus as 6 B.C., the gates ofSaepinum show the same treatment of voussoirs.At the same time its type is very archaic andinteresting as giving us a model for reconstruct-ing the pre-Augustan gates of Rome. In both plan and vaulting this gate

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