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Ashby,T.: The classical Topography of the roman campagna. The via latina. Introduction
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the marble top of the tomb to which it belonged, decorated with the pileus
or: tutulus (according to Tomassetti-that of a flamen, the apex being omitted
for artistic reasons), the lituus and the simpulum. This and the inscription
are shown in Pl. Ill, Fig. i. Tomassetti gives a photograph of the former
in Bull. cit. 80.
Walls of brickwork and opus reticulatum belonging to other tombs
were also discovered—among the former a fragment of a rectangular
stamp with hollow letters bearing the word DOMITIAE in the first line,
the second being illegible. In planting trees other stamps were sub-
sequently found at the same point : I noted several copies of C.I.L. xv.
582 b (Hadrian), also 942 (134 A.D.) and a variety of 1005 b (93-108 A.D.).
« % FAV //////// ITI TVLL .
Fau[sti Domfiti Tulllfi) (sc. servi').
Tomassetti also records the discovery of two bronze coins of the third
century A.D., a piece of a fine marble cornice, an unimportant late
sepulchral inscription (p. 87), and fragments of others ; and of a rectangular
sarcophagus, the cover having the form of a roof with antefixae, and the
front being striated.
On Jan. 4, 1752 (or 1759), according to Guarneri (Sched. litt. F. f. 104,
288), there was discovered at Roma Vecchia the interesting inscription
C.I.L. vi. 10245. Liberti, libertae Prisci Aug(usti) Libert!) Gamiani ex
testamento descriptufii) ita ut cautum erat subscripserlpint'): locus (sic) moni-
menti sive ager est, Via Latina ad milliarium v., suprapontem ad monimentum
Garni Caesaris Agathocliani do, lego libertis meis utriusque sexsus posterisque
eorum et iis quos manumitti rogavi ibique tabernam fieri inque earn rem
consumi sestertium n(ummiim) quinquaginta milia arbitratu Agathangeli
collibfirti). This bridge at the fifth mile is not otherwise known, nor can we
be certain what stream it crossed.
Tomassetti in the article cited speaks of a large mass of Carrara
marble, found about 300 metres to the S.E. of the Casale, and still
preserved there: it is a triangular prism in shape, 2’40 metres long, O’8o
metre high, too metre wide at one end, and o-8o at the other. Clamp
holes at each end of the larger sides show that it was attached to other
blocks at each side. This he takes to have been a part of the breakwater
of the bridge by which the Via Latina crossed the Marrana. This stream
the marble top of the tomb to which it belonged, decorated with the pileus
or: tutulus (according to Tomassetti-that of a flamen, the apex being omitted
for artistic reasons), the lituus and the simpulum. This and the inscription
are shown in Pl. Ill, Fig. i. Tomassetti gives a photograph of the former
in Bull. cit. 80.
Walls of brickwork and opus reticulatum belonging to other tombs
were also discovered—among the former a fragment of a rectangular
stamp with hollow letters bearing the word DOMITIAE in the first line,
the second being illegible. In planting trees other stamps were sub-
sequently found at the same point : I noted several copies of C.I.L. xv.
582 b (Hadrian), also 942 (134 A.D.) and a variety of 1005 b (93-108 A.D.).
« % FAV //////// ITI TVLL .
Fau[sti Domfiti Tulllfi) (sc. servi').
Tomassetti also records the discovery of two bronze coins of the third
century A.D., a piece of a fine marble cornice, an unimportant late
sepulchral inscription (p. 87), and fragments of others ; and of a rectangular
sarcophagus, the cover having the form of a roof with antefixae, and the
front being striated.
On Jan. 4, 1752 (or 1759), according to Guarneri (Sched. litt. F. f. 104,
288), there was discovered at Roma Vecchia the interesting inscription
C.I.L. vi. 10245. Liberti, libertae Prisci Aug(usti) Libert!) Gamiani ex
testamento descriptufii) ita ut cautum erat subscripserlpint'): locus (sic) moni-
menti sive ager est, Via Latina ad milliarium v., suprapontem ad monimentum
Garni Caesaris Agathocliani do, lego libertis meis utriusque sexsus posterisque
eorum et iis quos manumitti rogavi ibique tabernam fieri inque earn rem
consumi sestertium n(ummiim) quinquaginta milia arbitratu Agathangeli
collibfirti). This bridge at the fifth mile is not otherwise known, nor can we
be certain what stream it crossed.
Tomassetti in the article cited speaks of a large mass of Carrara
marble, found about 300 metres to the S.E. of the Casale, and still
preserved there: it is a triangular prism in shape, 2’40 metres long, O’8o
metre high, too metre wide at one end, and o-8o at the other. Clamp
holes at each end of the larger sides show that it was attached to other
blocks at each side. This he takes to have been a part of the breakwater
of the bridge by which the Via Latina crossed the Marrana. This stream