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Ashby, Thomas: The classical topography of the roman Campagna, 1
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Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.—I. 153
the concrete core ; the entrance is from the N. side, away from the road.
The stonework of the outside has naturally entirely disappeared. A view
of the tomb is given by Pietro Sante Bartoli {Sepolcri Antichi, tav. 58),
and a plan and conjectural restoration by Canina {Edifizi di Roma, v.
p. 86, vi. tav. 105). The tomb is the largest in the suburbs of Rome, but
the owner is unknown. Canina, on the strength of Eusebius, Chron. 01.
175, 3: Titas Quinctins Atta scribtor togatarnin Romae inoritur sepultusque
via Praeiiestina ad iniliariuni II. makes Atta the occupant; but the
attribution is of course quite groundless.
To the W. of it must have stood the tomb of M. Aurelius Syntomus
(Ficoroni, Labico, 28 ; C.I.L. vi. 13244 5), the inscription in honour of whom,
still exists in the vineyard where it was found, with other marble
fragments.
Just before reaching this point are traces of the ancient pavement of
the road. Stevenson notes that he saw the track of the road in the Vigna
del Torrone. Near the Torrone, in the small Vigna Bertone, the inscrip-
tion of M. Antonius Terens, negotiator celeberriinus snariae et pecuariae, was
discovered in 1892 {Not. Scam, 1892, 23 ; Bull. Com. 1891, 318; Lanciani,
Ruins and Excavations, 515). In the Vigna di Nola, to the N. of the
Torrone, are the remains of a villa of the first century A.D. (Bull. Com.
1891 p. 322).
The road now descends through a cutting in the rock, which bears
marks of antiquity (Nibby, Analisi, iii. 627). Higli on the left are two
passages cut in the rock, which in Nibby's time radiated from a shaft, the
top of which was constructed in opus reticulatum, which has now
disappeared: they are probably connected with the water supply of a
villa. A cutting recently made here as an entrance into the vineyard
revealed other foundations in opus reticulatum and late tombs. (Steven-
son MS. cit. f. 4'.)
At the bottom of the valley is the Marranella stream. The Vigna
Aragni near the bridge has produced a certain number of sepul-
chral inscriptions {Not. Scav., 1876, 89 ; 1878, i66=C.I.E. vi. 8496,
10638, 12078, 14288, 15087, 24783, 28770).
On the further side of the bridge the Via Praenestina is crossed at right
angles by the new military road, on the W. of which is a fairly well
preserved tomb in ornamental brickwork, entered from the W. side, which
was the most highly decorated. This fact may point to the existence of a
the concrete core ; the entrance is from the N. side, away from the road.
The stonework of the outside has naturally entirely disappeared. A view
of the tomb is given by Pietro Sante Bartoli {Sepolcri Antichi, tav. 58),
and a plan and conjectural restoration by Canina {Edifizi di Roma, v.
p. 86, vi. tav. 105). The tomb is the largest in the suburbs of Rome, but
the owner is unknown. Canina, on the strength of Eusebius, Chron. 01.
175, 3: Titas Quinctins Atta scribtor togatarnin Romae inoritur sepultusque
via Praeiiestina ad iniliariuni II. makes Atta the occupant; but the
attribution is of course quite groundless.
To the W. of it must have stood the tomb of M. Aurelius Syntomus
(Ficoroni, Labico, 28 ; C.I.L. vi. 13244 5), the inscription in honour of whom,
still exists in the vineyard where it was found, with other marble
fragments.
Just before reaching this point are traces of the ancient pavement of
the road. Stevenson notes that he saw the track of the road in the Vigna
del Torrone. Near the Torrone, in the small Vigna Bertone, the inscrip-
tion of M. Antonius Terens, negotiator celeberriinus snariae et pecuariae, was
discovered in 1892 {Not. Scam, 1892, 23 ; Bull. Com. 1891, 318; Lanciani,
Ruins and Excavations, 515). In the Vigna di Nola, to the N. of the
Torrone, are the remains of a villa of the first century A.D. (Bull. Com.
1891 p. 322).
The road now descends through a cutting in the rock, which bears
marks of antiquity (Nibby, Analisi, iii. 627). Higli on the left are two
passages cut in the rock, which in Nibby's time radiated from a shaft, the
top of which was constructed in opus reticulatum, which has now
disappeared: they are probably connected with the water supply of a
villa. A cutting recently made here as an entrance into the vineyard
revealed other foundations in opus reticulatum and late tombs. (Steven-
son MS. cit. f. 4'.)
At the bottom of the valley is the Marranella stream. The Vigna
Aragni near the bridge has produced a certain number of sepul-
chral inscriptions {Not. Scav., 1876, 89 ; 1878, i66=C.I.E. vi. 8496,
10638, 12078, 14288, 15087, 24783, 28770).
On the further side of the bridge the Via Praenestina is crossed at right
angles by the new military road, on the W. of which is a fairly well
preserved tomb in ornamental brickwork, entered from the W. side, which
was the most highly decorated. This fact may point to the existence of a