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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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Fragment of the Apollo, from the Terracotta Gable Sculpturesof the Hellenistic Temple at Luni
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Sassoferrato (near), Central Group of Ariadne at Xaxos, fromthe Terracotta Gable of a Hellenistic Temple Plate XVIII ROMAN CITIES 117 in the matter of decorative detail in architecture.Take, for instance, merely the question of capi-tals. The popular fallacy, — long since aban-doned by scholars, — that the Tuscan Doric wasthe sole Etruscan order is contradicted by themost cursory glance at the monuments. Thehybrid forms of Ionic, of composite and of fig-ured capitals, such as we find in rather rococoRoman works of the age of Caracalla, have heretheir Etruscan prototypes. There is a rich variety of material for recon-stituting the terra-cotta friezes and gable sculp-tures of the temples; but aside from the earliestexamples from Satricum and Capua they datebetween the fourth and the second centuries B.C.Recently discovered are those found at CittadAlba, near Sassoferrato, the ancient Sentinumwhich I will illustrate here, though it is an Um-brian city. They are in a Hellenistic style

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