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Title: The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nd private buildings purchased and demolishedby this Emperor in or about 315 a.d. The list com-prises the palaces of T. Flavins Claudius Claudianusand of T. Avidius Quietus already mentioned; the pal-ace and gardens of a C. Art(orius ?) Germanianus,of a Claudia Vera, of a Lucius Naevius Clemens, of aMarcus Postumius Festus; and a sacred edifice, theroof of which was made of marble tiles. These tilesConstantines architect made use of in laying the foun-dations of the Caldarium, from which we dug themout, one by one, in 1879. They were all marked witha number, so that, in making repairs, the roof couldbe taken off and put together again without difficultyby observing the sequence of the figures. In anotherpart of the same foundations we found many fragmentsof statues and sculptured marbles built, as commonmaterials, into the rubble work. A similar statement would hold good for the Bathsof Diocletian. The excavations made within the limitsof this immense structure since 1870 in connexion
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o a, ^^ bH X3 o c3 o > J5 TRANSFORMATION OF REPUBLICAN ROME 27 with work on the railway station, the Piazza deiCinquecento, the Grand Hotel, and the Massimi palace,as well as the cutting of streets and the laying outof new gardens, have brought to light the remains ofseveral preexisting edifices, — among them the officesof a Collegium Fortunae Felicls, and a temple built onfoundations of concrete ; a colonnade or shrine rebuiltby Gnaeus Sentius Saturninus; pavements of streets,walls of private houses, and a reservoir. The materialsof all these buildings, brick and marble, were used overagain in the foundations of the baths. CHAPTER III THE USE OF EARLIER MATERIALS, PARTICULARLYMARBLES, IN THE BUILDING OPERATIONS OF THELATER EMPIRE The practice of building walls with architecturalmarbles, blocks containing inscriptions, statues, and otherfine materials from previous structures, goes at leastas far back as tlie reign of Septimius Severus (193-211 A.D.). The propylaea of the Porticu

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