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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. 207
opus reticulatum with quoins of tufa, and belonging therefore, in all prob-
ability, to the first century of the Empire. Its internal diameters are
respectively 44'50 m. and 29'90 m. The outermost wall preserved,
with niches and doors, is 1 m. thick. Outside it are traces of a passage
2-50 wide, but the outer enclosing wall has perished.1 Beyond it are two
large water reservoirs in opus reticulatum, the remains of a columbarium,
which when found had two urns in each niche but has since been very
much damaged, and various other remains. A cippus has been built into
a gateway here, bearing an inscription, which, though apparently not
unknown to archaeologists (I was told that it had been seen and copied by
Garrucci and others), has never, so far as I know, been published. I there-
fore give it here.
C IVLIO C F PAL
SEVERO VIXIT
ANNIS XXVIII ET
CIVLIO'AVG LIB'
CRESCENT! CLARANO
PATRI IN FRO P L
IN AGR P LXV
The cippus is of travertine, and the surface is somewhat worn, so that
my copy, made rather hurriedly, is not accurate in the matter of punctua-
tion. The end of the fifth line I could not read, and give the letters as
they appeared to me. The cippus is rounded at the head, and measures
33 cm. across, 47 high, and 13 thick ; the letters of each line are 25 mm.
high. At Cavamonte was found C.I.L. xiv. 2840.
After leaving the Osteriola the road runs through a deep cutting in the
rock, which has been further deepened in recent times ; in some places the
ancient pavement is seen six feet above the modern road. The construc-
tion of opus quadratum in a crevice high up on its N.W. side, which
Nibby (Analisi, i. 444) attributed to an aqueduct, is probably intended to
fill up a crack in the rock, so as to prevent earth from falling on the road.
A string course of three blocks of opus quadratum close by looks as if it
may have supported an inscription. On this side there is the square
1 A plan of this amphitheatre was made by Palladio (Portfolio xv. f. 8', of his drawings in the
library of the Society of Architects): in his time the vineyard in which it stands belonged to
Camillo Colonna.
opus reticulatum with quoins of tufa, and belonging therefore, in all prob-
ability, to the first century of the Empire. Its internal diameters are
respectively 44'50 m. and 29'90 m. The outermost wall preserved,
with niches and doors, is 1 m. thick. Outside it are traces of a passage
2-50 wide, but the outer enclosing wall has perished.1 Beyond it are two
large water reservoirs in opus reticulatum, the remains of a columbarium,
which when found had two urns in each niche but has since been very
much damaged, and various other remains. A cippus has been built into
a gateway here, bearing an inscription, which, though apparently not
unknown to archaeologists (I was told that it had been seen and copied by
Garrucci and others), has never, so far as I know, been published. I there-
fore give it here.
C IVLIO C F PAL
SEVERO VIXIT
ANNIS XXVIII ET
CIVLIO'AVG LIB'
CRESCENT! CLARANO
PATRI IN FRO P L
IN AGR P LXV
The cippus is of travertine, and the surface is somewhat worn, so that
my copy, made rather hurriedly, is not accurate in the matter of punctua-
tion. The end of the fifth line I could not read, and give the letters as
they appeared to me. The cippus is rounded at the head, and measures
33 cm. across, 47 high, and 13 thick ; the letters of each line are 25 mm.
high. At Cavamonte was found C.I.L. xiv. 2840.
After leaving the Osteriola the road runs through a deep cutting in the
rock, which has been further deepened in recent times ; in some places the
ancient pavement is seen six feet above the modern road. The construc-
tion of opus quadratum in a crevice high up on its N.W. side, which
Nibby (Analisi, i. 444) attributed to an aqueduct, is probably intended to
fill up a crack in the rock, so as to prevent earth from falling on the road.
A string course of three blocks of opus quadratum close by looks as if it
may have supported an inscription. On this side there is the square
1 A plan of this amphitheatre was made by Palladio (Portfolio xv. f. 8', of his drawings in the
library of the Society of Architects): in his time the vineyard in which it stands belonged to
Camillo Colonna.