Anderson, William J.; Spiers, Richard Phené; Ashby, Thomas [Hrsg.]: The architecture of Greece and Rome (2): The architecture of ancient Rome: an account of its historic development ... (London, 1927)

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THE ARCHITECTURE OF ANCIENT ROME.

which is probably to be attributed to the same period.1 The
claim hitherto advanced on behalf of the Etruscans, that it was from
them that the Romans learnt the construction of the arch (if indeed
they learnt it from anyone, and it is not rather an independent
development) can only be sustained in the sense that the last Kings


Fig. 2.—Early Fortification Walls on Palatine.

1 American Journal of Archceology (1918) : 175 sqq. and op. cit. 90 sqq. He
there re-states an earlier view that the Aventine was not enclosed within the
original Servian wall, and attributes the wall on the Palatine (there is more
doubt about the gateway found—and destroyed—near S. Maria in Cosmedin
in' 1886) to this original seventh and sixth century, b.c. fortification. Del-
briick (Apollotempel, pp. 13-15) wishes to assign the Palatine wall to the
sixth century and the rest of the enceinte to 379 b.c., after the fire of the Gauls,
despite their similarity of style.