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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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Pola, Harbor with Amphitheater Plate xLiv THE MPUBLIC TILDEN FGUNDATf02*3 ROMAN CITIES 271 inscription were found, as well as so many partsof the memberment that I hope to be able to re-construct the design of this important structure.Far from being a work of the decadence ofRoman art, this gate can now be proved to bein the style of the other large Augustan gates atNimes, Turin, Aosta and Verona, most of whicHI have described. It is a small fortress with acentral court. The gateways themselves aretriple on each face, and the outside, or east face,is flanked by two large projecting circular tow-ers, which have caused great confusion in theminds of archaeologists because they were sep-arate from the walls in construction, were usedas aqueduct reservoirs, and projected into theinterior of the citv. But what became the in-terior in the time of Marcus Aurelius, when thenew and larger wall circuit was erected to inclosethe east suburb, had been the exterior in the timeof Augustus, when the

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