DOI article:
Ashby, Thomas: The classical topography of the roman Campagna, 1
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The British School at Rome.
On the left of the road, a little way before the eleventh kilometre is
reached, is a large tomb—a circular mound, within which is a round
chamber approached by a passage in opus reticulatum. There are also
several brick fragments about, one of which bears the rectangular stamp
(unpublished hitherto)
| I SVAVISGPMET
I I TETTIAESEF
The whole stamp measures only 069 m. x '021 m., and is remarkably
small.
On the right of the road, about halfway up the hill, a late tomb formed
of tiles, one of which bore the stamp C.I.L. xv. 1464a, was discovered in
March 1900. On the top of the hill, and to the S. of the eleventh kilometre
stone, are traces of a large villa.
In Not. Scan. 1883, 170 is recorded the discovery, 200 m. beyond the
eleventh kilometre, and 60 m. from the edge of the road on the N. side, of an
ancient press for oil or wine, consisting of two huge blocks 2'IO X 2'20 m.,
with a double concentric circular channel and another for an outlet, and
two troughs of sarcophagus shape 2 m. long by 35 cm. wide. The whole
apparatus had been destroyed in ancient times, for the two large blocks
had been turned upside down and a pavement of opus spicatum built
upon them.
About 200 m. further on the same side, close to the road, is a water
reservoir or piscina, consisting of a single chamber io| by 4^ paces inside,
lined witli hard cement, strengthened on the outside by buttresses at each
angle and in the centre of each wall. It is constructed of blocks of tufa,
of the size and shape of modern bricks, with two bands of five baked
bricks each running right through, one rio m. above ground, the
other 1'30 m. above that. Further from the road are the remains of a
mediaeval structure on an ancient site.
On the opposite side of the road, in a field, a large white marble cornice,
which still lies there, was recently found. The breadth of the block is (not
including the cornice) 62 cm., its present length (part was broken off in
attempting to lift it) 1*36 m. The depth of the cornice at the top is
31 cm.
Further S.E. (almost due S. of the twelfth kilometre stone) is a large
The British School at Rome.
On the left of the road, a little way before the eleventh kilometre is
reached, is a large tomb—a circular mound, within which is a round
chamber approached by a passage in opus reticulatum. There are also
several brick fragments about, one of which bears the rectangular stamp
(unpublished hitherto)
| I SVAVISGPMET
I I TETTIAESEF
The whole stamp measures only 069 m. x '021 m., and is remarkably
small.
On the right of the road, about halfway up the hill, a late tomb formed
of tiles, one of which bore the stamp C.I.L. xv. 1464a, was discovered in
March 1900. On the top of the hill, and to the S. of the eleventh kilometre
stone, are traces of a large villa.
In Not. Scan. 1883, 170 is recorded the discovery, 200 m. beyond the
eleventh kilometre, and 60 m. from the edge of the road on the N. side, of an
ancient press for oil or wine, consisting of two huge blocks 2'IO X 2'20 m.,
with a double concentric circular channel and another for an outlet, and
two troughs of sarcophagus shape 2 m. long by 35 cm. wide. The whole
apparatus had been destroyed in ancient times, for the two large blocks
had been turned upside down and a pavement of opus spicatum built
upon them.
About 200 m. further on the same side, close to the road, is a water
reservoir or piscina, consisting of a single chamber io| by 4^ paces inside,
lined witli hard cement, strengthened on the outside by buttresses at each
angle and in the centre of each wall. It is constructed of blocks of tufa,
of the size and shape of modern bricks, with two bands of five baked
bricks each running right through, one rio m. above ground, the
other 1'30 m. above that. Further from the road are the remains of a
mediaeval structure on an ancient site.
On the opposite side of the road, in a field, a large white marble cornice,
which still lies there, was recently found. The breadth of the block is (not
including the cornice) 62 cm., its present length (part was broken off in
attempting to lift it) 1*36 m. The depth of the cornice at the top is
31 cm.
Further S.E. (almost due S. of the twelfth kilometre stone) is a large