The archaeology of Rome. 12 pt. [in 9]. |
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Pagina ix
... block at the starting point : —the first Regio is called the Porta Capena , but the site of that gate was not known , and none of the objects in this Regio could be placed until that was ascertained . With some difficulty , and after ...
... block at the starting point : —the first Regio is called the Porta Capena , but the site of that gate was not known , and none of the objects in this Regio could be placed until that was ascertained . With some difficulty , and after ...
Pagina
... block at the starting - point : -the first Regio is called the Porta Capena , but the site of that gate was not known , and none of the objects in this Regio could be placed until that was ascertained . With some difficulty , and after ...
... block at the starting - point : -the first Regio is called the Porta Capena , but the site of that gate was not known , and none of the objects in this Regio could be placed until that was ascertained . With some difficulty , and after ...
Pagina iii
... blocks of tufa . Several things , which at first seemed bold and hazardous conjectures only , have eventually become matter of strict demon- stration . It is now certain that these great blocks of stone were each of a ton weight ( or ...
... blocks of tufa . Several things , which at first seemed bold and hazardous conjectures only , have eventually become matter of strict demon- stration . It is now certain that these great blocks of stone were each of a ton weight ( or ...
Pagina v
... blocks of tufa , cut away from the surface of the cliff in the process of scarping it , and that other parts of similar blocks of a slightly different colour have . been brought from a quarry in the same hill , very near to the spot ...
... blocks of tufa , cut away from the surface of the cliff in the process of scarping it , and that other parts of similar blocks of a slightly different colour have . been brought from a quarry in the same hill , very near to the spot ...
Pagina 24
... blocks of large size , and of these blocks the walls are built ; the stone has only been split off the rocks with wedges , not cut with the saw , and there is no original cement , or at least no lime - mortar . Along the north end of ...
... blocks of large size , and of these blocks the walls are built ; the stone has only been split off the rocks with wedges , not cut with the saw , and there is no original cement , or at least no lime - mortar . Along the north end of ...
Parole e frasi comuni
Ærarium afterwards agger ancient Appia Aqua aqueduct arcade Arch Augustus Aurelian Aventine bank Basilica brick bridge built called Capitol cave century church Circus Maximus Claudius Clivus Cloaca Maxima Cœlian columns construction Dionys Dionysius early earthworks Emperor Empire Esquiline Etruscan excavations feet Flaminia fortress Forum Romanum foss foss-way Gabii gate Hadrian Hexastyle Hexastyle Temple Honorius inscription Janiculum Julius Cæsar Kings Lateran Leonine City Livii Hist Livy marble Martius mentioned modern Nero original outer palace Palatine Hill passage passed period PHOTOGRAPHS Pliny pomarium Porta Capena Porta Maggiore Porticus Prætorian Camp prison probably quæ Quirinal quod rebuilt Regio remains road Roma Roman Rome Romulus round Salaria scarped cliffs Servius Tullius Severus shew stone street Suetonius Sylla Tabularium Temple of Concord Temple of Jupiter Thermæ Tiber Tiberius tomb towers Trajan trench tufa tufa wall Varro Villa visible Wall of Aurelian
Brani popolari
Pagina 7 - When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege...
Pagina iii - And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, three-score cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
Pagina 198 - And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house ; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
Pagina iv - For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude ; for both they and their camels were without number : and they entered into the land to destroy it.
Pagina iv - For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
Pagina 198 - And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses : a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home : and Adoniram was over the levy. 15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains...
Pagina 48 - ... and set the towers thereof upon the gates of it, an hundred cubits high, and the breadth thereof in the foundation threescore cubits: and he made the gates thereof, even gates that were raised to the height of seventy cubits, and the breadth of them was forty cubits, for the going forth of his mighty armies, and for the setting in array of his footmen...
Pagina 5 - Walls of the Kings on the Hills of Rome, and similar Walls in other Ancient Cities of Italy, for Comparison. 24 Photographs. II. 14s. Walls and Gates of Rome, of the Time of the Empire and of the Popes. 20 Photographs. II. 10«.
Pagina 198 - And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains ; 16 Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work. 17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
Pagina 108 - ... he took care of the temple that it should not fall, and fortified the city against besieging: how was he honoured in the midst of the people in his coming out of the sanctuary! He was as the morning star in the midst of a cloud, and as the moon at the full: as the sun shining upon the temple of the most High, and as the rainbow giving light in the bright clouds...