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Ashby,T.: The classical Topography of the roman campagna. The via latina. Introduction
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Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.—III. 49
C.I.L. vi. 11359 (in the Vigna Torri in the 18th century) 12194, 12723,
13238 (transferred from the Via Ostiensis).
The inscriptions given vaguely as found ‘ outside the Porta S. Gio-
vanni ’ (in the immediate vicinity of Rome) are C.I.L. vi. 8695 (recording an
imperial freedman adiutor ab actis), 9443 (the marble architrave of a tomb
with a finely cut inscription, recording the name of three people, one of
them a glutinarius, or maker of glue, discovered in Fea’s time outside the
Porta S. Giovanni on the right—Fasti, Rome, 1820, p. 106, 43), 16753 (a
sepulchral inscription found ‘in quodam agro’ outside the gate in 1616,
later bought by Townley, and now in the British Museum), 20343, 24408
(‘ad Viam Asinariam ’ Fabretti), 28591 (near the gate on the right) ; LG.
xiv. 1996, 2014.
The sepulchral inscription C.I.L. vi. 1852 (erected in memory of a
scriba librarius aedilium curulium, lictor curiatius') which was seen in the
middle of the 16th century in the house of the Porcari family, and said by
Ligorio to have been found on the Via Flaminia, was, according to
Aldrovandi {Le Statue di Roma, p. 247), discovered outside the Porta S.
Giovanni—a statement which is not noticed in the Corpus.
The Via delle Tre Madonne, which diverges to the S. just outside the
gate, and runs to the Via Latina, has already been dealt with {supra, 21).
Near the Porta S. Giovanni, in the Vigna del Pozzo, were found two
cippi of travertine, of the Republican period, bearing the inscription C.I.L.
vi. 23616.
Tomassetti (p. 35 n. 1) notes the existence a short distance outside the
gate, on the right, of a' much injured relief, with four figures, one repre-
senting Diana with a dog.
A Greek inscription erected by Aglais, a freedwoman of Claudius
Balbillus, governor of Egypt under Nero {Prosopographia i. p. 360, n. 662)
is given by Ligorio {Neap. vii. 466) as having been found on the Via Valeria
near the gate of S. Giovanni Laterano (sic). The indication is incorrect,
but without further evidence it seems wrong to describe the inscription as
belonging to Porto, as is done in Prosopographia, cit.
The Vicolo dello Scorpione, which falls into the Via Appia Nuova
before the railway crossing, is mentioned, supra, 42.
In the Vigna dello Scorpione, no doubt along this vicolo on the right,
there was found in May 1620 a sarcophagus with fine basreliefs, and
in the oval of the cover the inscription C.I.L. vi. 1373. D(is) M(anibus)
E
C.I.L. vi. 11359 (in the Vigna Torri in the 18th century) 12194, 12723,
13238 (transferred from the Via Ostiensis).
The inscriptions given vaguely as found ‘ outside the Porta S. Gio-
vanni ’ (in the immediate vicinity of Rome) are C.I.L. vi. 8695 (recording an
imperial freedman adiutor ab actis), 9443 (the marble architrave of a tomb
with a finely cut inscription, recording the name of three people, one of
them a glutinarius, or maker of glue, discovered in Fea’s time outside the
Porta S. Giovanni on the right—Fasti, Rome, 1820, p. 106, 43), 16753 (a
sepulchral inscription found ‘in quodam agro’ outside the gate in 1616,
later bought by Townley, and now in the British Museum), 20343, 24408
(‘ad Viam Asinariam ’ Fabretti), 28591 (near the gate on the right) ; LG.
xiv. 1996, 2014.
The sepulchral inscription C.I.L. vi. 1852 (erected in memory of a
scriba librarius aedilium curulium, lictor curiatius') which was seen in the
middle of the 16th century in the house of the Porcari family, and said by
Ligorio to have been found on the Via Flaminia, was, according to
Aldrovandi {Le Statue di Roma, p. 247), discovered outside the Porta S.
Giovanni—a statement which is not noticed in the Corpus.
The Via delle Tre Madonne, which diverges to the S. just outside the
gate, and runs to the Via Latina, has already been dealt with {supra, 21).
Near the Porta S. Giovanni, in the Vigna del Pozzo, were found two
cippi of travertine, of the Republican period, bearing the inscription C.I.L.
vi. 23616.
Tomassetti (p. 35 n. 1) notes the existence a short distance outside the
gate, on the right, of a' much injured relief, with four figures, one repre-
senting Diana with a dog.
A Greek inscription erected by Aglais, a freedwoman of Claudius
Balbillus, governor of Egypt under Nero {Prosopographia i. p. 360, n. 662)
is given by Ligorio {Neap. vii. 466) as having been found on the Via Valeria
near the gate of S. Giovanni Laterano (sic). The indication is incorrect,
but without further evidence it seems wrong to describe the inscription as
belonging to Porto, as is done in Prosopographia, cit.
The Vicolo dello Scorpione, which falls into the Via Appia Nuova
before the railway crossing, is mentioned, supra, 42.
In the Vigna dello Scorpione, no doubt along this vicolo on the right,
there was found in May 1620 a sarcophagus with fine basreliefs, and
in the oval of the cover the inscription C.I.L. vi. 1373. D(is) M(anibus)
E