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Parker, John Henry
The archaeology of Rome (1,text): I. The primitive fortifications — Oxford [u.a.], 1874

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Appendix. Opus Lateritium: on Brick Stamps . . . .26
Polygonal Masonry . . . . . . -3°
Cyclopean Walls . . . . . . 31
The use of the Arch and of Mortar . . . . . ib.
Walls of Palestrina . . . . . . . 32
Capitolium or Municipium . . . . . -33
AErarium and Tabularium, parts of it . . . . -34
The Municipium of Michael Angelo . . . . -35
Temple and Gate of Saturn . . . . . 36
Lowest Story, two Doorways cut in the Rock only . . -37
Steep Staircase to the Offices of the AErarium, mentioned by Cicero . ib.
Great Fire in this building in the time of Sylla . . . ib.
The AErarium, called after Saturn by Suetonius and Varro . . 38
That it was part of this building is shewn by Tacitus, Caesar, Cicero,
Livy, and Plutarch . . . . . -39
That this building was of great extent is shewn by several authors . 40
The Senaculum or Senate-house was in part of this building . . 41
The upper part of this building was of wood, and had a wooden Por-
tions or arcade attached to it . . . . .42
Temple of Saturn, and Stairs from it to the offices of the Treasury . 43
Cicero compares these steep stairs to “ climbing the Alps” . . 44
Temple of Concord, rebuilt by Tiberius . . . -45
-originally built, B.C. 403, fronting the Forum . ib.
One Temple of Concord within the wall of the Arx, not two . . 46
The Curia, another name for this great building (?) . . 48
Opus Quadratum, Temple of Jupiter Feretrius, built in the year 4 of
Rome by Romulus, in 7iis Arx or Capitol on the Palatine Hill, at
the north end . . . . . . . -49
Wall to enclose the Hill of Saturn and the Palatine in one City . 51
The line of this wall traced by existing remains of it . . 52
Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus on the Tarpeian rock, built by the
Tarquins to commemorate the Conquest of Gabii, and built of
Gabii stone . . . . . . -53
Ruins of it remain on the summit of the Tarpeian rock . . 54
Opus Reticulatum.—Domus Augustiana et Tiberiana . . -54
House of Hortensius, purchased by Augustus, site and remains of 55
The Remains, called the House of Augustus by Rancourail and the
Roman antiquaries, are part of the Palace of Domitian, whose
brick-stamps remain on the walls . . . . 56
Augustus lived in the house of Hortensius for forty years . -57
The Senate added State Apartments to it. Remains both of the
original house and of the additions to it, excavated in 1869—70 . ib.
Augustus was born in another part of the Palatine, and the house in
which he Was born was afterwards made a temple in his honour . 58
Palace of Tiberius was on the west side towards the Circus Maximus . 59
- Remains of it faced with Opus Reticulatum of his time . ib.
•- The description of the interview with Umbricius the Augur
by Tacitus agrees with this site . . . . .60
Zig-zag road from the Arch of Janus to the summit of the Palatine
Hill ........ 61
Bridge of Caligula carried an Aqueduct, and a road from the Palatine
to the Capitol across the Forum Romanum,—there are slight
remains of it, under the Palatine . . . . .62
 
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