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The British School at Rome.

The district between the Viae Praenestina and Labicana was here
traversed by an ancient road, the first part of which is in all probability
represented by the modern Vicolo del Pigneto (p. 152), though I have not,
after careful investigation, been able to find the connecting links. After
the end of the prolongation eastwards of the Vicolo dei Carbonari
there are no certain traces of the road (though its line may be assumed
with some degree of probability, coinciding as it does with a boundary line
for some way, until it crosses the Fosso di Centocelle) until, just to the N.
of the Muraccio di Rischiaro, we reach a cutting made for it, which seems
certainly ancient. There are some loose paving stones about, and this
tower itself is full of fragments of them and of pieces of marble. Two of
the latter bear a few letters of a sepulchral inscription:

TRATV
PHI
[a^ij/m^ .\Phi .
To the N. of the cutting are the remains of a church, which runs parallel
with the road, built apparently upon an earlier building in opus quadratum.
Further W., on the S. of the line of the road, is a mass of tufa whicli has
been cut square (about 2uo m. each side) which may have served to sup-
port a sepulchral cippus.
On the E. of the Fosso di Tre Teste are the remains of two water
reservoirs (both single chambers, constructed in opus reticulatum, with
buttresses) and of the villas which they supplied. On a brickstamp (lunate)
which I found here I could only read
OPDOLEX////
//INF////
///////
It seems to have belonged to the second century. A few paving stones
belonging to the road occur among these ruins. Its pavement is said
to have been found in the fields about a kilometre to the south of
Muraccio dell' Uomo, and the cutting made for it through the hill
appears unmistakably on the W. of the Fosso di Tor di Bella Monaca.
Possibly also the tomb at point 54 to the N. of the aqueduct lies on its