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Identifier: citiescemeterie02denn (find matches)
Title: The cities and cemeteries of Etruria
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Dennis, George, 1814-1898
Subjects: Tombs
Publisher: London Murray

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ch is a frieze of six Ionic colounettes,fluted, alternating with shields ; and from this springs anotherarch, now blocked up, surmounted by a second frieze of Ionicpilasters, not fluted. All the work above the lower arch isevidently of later date than the original construction of the gate- 6 The largest block I observed was 5 feet is very simple, not unlike that of the Portaby 2 ; very small in comparison with the di Giove at Falleri. In one of the spandrilscolossal masonry of Cortona. there seems to have been a massive Lead, 7 The gate is 14 feet 6 inches wide, 20 now quite disfigured ; in the other a pro-fcet 4 inches deep, and about 22 feet from jecting stone, though not in a correspondingthe ground to the spring of the arch, the position. This head may have been thekeystone of which will consequently be keystone of the original arch, which theDearly 30 feet from the ground. There architects of the existing structure did notare 17 voussoirs. The moulding round it choose to replace.
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E E 2 chap. lxi.J THE AEOH OF AUGUSTUS. 421 way.8 The entire height of the structure, as it now stands,cannot he less than sixty or seventy feel. This gate stands recessed from the line of the city-wall, and isflanked on either hand by a tower, projecting about twenty feet,and rising, narrowing upwards, to a level with the top of the wallabove the gate. The masonry of these towers, to the height ofthe imposts of the arch, corresponds with that of the gate itself,and seems to be the original structure ; all above that height isof a later period. The masoniy is much sharper and fresher inappearance than it is represented in the opposite woodcut, whichin other respects gives a faithful representation of the gate andflanking towers.9 This gate still forms one of the entrances to the city, thoughthere is a populous suburb without the walls. Its appearance ismost imposing. The lofty towers, like ponderous obelisks, trun-cated—the tall archway recessed between them—the frieze ofshields a

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