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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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had plain, uninscribed surfaces. Hadthis been one of the principal gates it would cer-tainly have had a dedicatory inscription—a du-plicate of the one I have just quoted. For allits simplicity, it would repay excavation. Irecommend it to the care of the Central Archae-ological Commission in Vienna as probably oneof the earliest known structures of the first em-peror. I hardly think that they appreciate itsearly date or historic imjDortance, for, except byGraef, it has never been ascribed, that I amaware, to the time of Augustus. Are there also possibly in Trieste any tracesof the Colony Arch which was the indispensableconcomitant of the foundation of a Roman city,or any further records of the city gates? Whenthe cathedral of the converted city was built inthe fifth centurj^ and when it was added to insubsequent centuries, the site of the old Capito-lium, or main temple of the Roman Tergeste,was used, and its ruins were built into the church.Parts of other ancient monuments came into
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■J Plate XLvi <%f / T- H ^oo ^£)v A /^T r^, no u ^^t;.y ROMAN CITIES 287 use as building material when the bell tower wasput up, and the main portal of the church wasformed out of an antique sepulchral monument.In this farrago, and among the many fragmentsin the neighboring )Museo Lapidario, I was de-lighted to discover parts of both the main Augus-tan gates and the Colony Arch. To the Arch Iattribute two sections of a narrow^ frieze with adecoration of arms and armor in low relief abovea double architrave. It belongs to the same typeas the friezes that still remain in place in theother early Augustan arches of Pola and S.Remy (Southern France), built in the samedecade. To the same arch may belong a sectionof cornice with an early form of egg-and-dart,dentil and anthemion decoration, a bit of friezewith foliated scrollwork, and some slabs witharms and armor and further frieze fragments,built into the campanile, though I am inclined toascribe the latter to some military sepulchra

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