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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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, in Dalmatia itself, which I shall describelater. These heads have never been identified,but I believe my suggestion is the only tenableexplanation. Their prototypes can be seen onEtruscan gates; I have already described thoseat Perugia and Falerii. An interesting and also unrecognized Augus-tan monument in Trieste (restored between 50and 60 a.d.) is the principal temple, which wasused for the earliest cathedral basilica. It hada double pronaos, with pilaster responds, whichformed the primitive portico of this basilica, andwhich in the Middle Ages was used for the foun-dations of the campanile which projects beyondone end of the church fa9ade. Hidden withinthe lower, hollow part of this campanile we canstudv what still remains of the columns andpilasters of pure early workmanship. It cer-tainly was the Capitolium of the Augustan colony. Pola But it IS in Pola that we find the most spec-tacular group of Roman monuments. To any PlJBLIcllSRARY ^TOR, LEW ox ANBTj—■ FOUNDATI»S*S J5==
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