The Primitive Fortifications of the City of Rome: And Other Buildings of the Time of the KingsJ. Parker and Company, 1878 - 232 pagine |
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Pagina xiv
... wall , to serve as buttresses to raise it higher . These are of the same early construction as the other walls , but they have only been carried to the height of ten or twelve feet from the ground , and then are suddenly left unfinished ...
... wall , to serve as buttresses to raise it higher . These are of the same early construction as the other walls , but they have only been carried to the height of ten or twelve feet from the ground , and then are suddenly left unfinished ...
Pagina xv
... wall fifty feet high and twelve feet thick , such as we have here . There are also remains of large round towers , hitherto unobserved , one has the Tor de Conti built upon it , but the walls of the base are of an enormous thickness ...
... wall fifty feet high and twelve feet thick , such as we have here . There are also remains of large round towers , hitherto unobserved , one has the Tor de Conti built upon it , but the walls of the base are of an enormous thickness ...
Pagina xvi
... walls built across them , of more or less early character . At Tusculum and Alatri also the original city is cut out ... wall , called Roma Quadrata , situated on that part of the Palatine where we should expect to find them , are of the ...
... walls built across them , of more or less early character . At Tusculum and Alatri also the original city is cut out ... wall , called Roma Quadrata , situated on that part of the Palatine where we should expect to find them , are of the ...
Pagina xviii
... wall and the beginning to raise it , might not have made any visible difference in the construction ; changes in ... Wall of Rome is all of fine - jointed masonry . This is the case even with the Pulchrum Littus on the bank of the Tiber ...
... wall and the beginning to raise it , might not have made any visible difference in the construction ; changes in ... Wall of Rome is all of fine - jointed masonry . This is the case even with the Pulchrum Littus on the bank of the Tiber ...
Pagina xx
... wall of the great Prison of the time of the Kings and of the Cloaca Maxima , is admitted to be the same , and Livy attributes them both to the same period . The wall of Servius Tullius follows next in order , and is rather later in ...
... wall of the great Prison of the time of the Kings and of the Cloaca Maxima , is admitted to be the same , and Livy attributes them both to the same period . The wall of Servius Tullius follows next in order , and is rather later in ...
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Parole e frasi comuni
ædes Ærarium afterwards agger of Servius ancient Appia aqueduct arcade Arch Augustus Aventine bank building built Cæsar called Capitol Capitoline Hill Capitolium Carmentalis cave church Clivus Cloaca Maxima Cœlian construction corner Dionys Dionysius early east end eastern side Empire Esquiline evidently excavations feet Festus fortress Forum of Augustus Forum Romanum foss foss-way gate Græcostasis ground hill of Saturn Ibid Kings Lateran Livii Hist Livy Lupercal Mamertine Prison mentioned modern north end original outer palace Palatine Hill passage period Photographs pomarium Porta Capena Porta Carmentalis Porta Collina porticus PRIMITIVE FORTIFICATIONS prison probably quæ Quirinal quod rebuilt remains road Roma Quadrata Romans Romulus Sabines scarped cliffs Senaculum Senate-house Servius Tullius shewn shews slope stone Sylla Tabularium Tacitus Tarpeian rock Tarquinius temple of Concord temple of Jupiter temple of Saturn Thermæ Tiber tower tufa tufa wall upper Urbis valley Varro Velia Viminal visible Wall of Rome
Brani popolari
Pagina 16 - And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
Pagina 16 - 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 501 - A CONCISE GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN GRECIAN, ROMAN, ITALIAN, AND GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE.
Pagina 16 - Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in ; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.
Pagina 16 - For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
Pagina 188 - The parents recognised the boy when he was first found, Captain Nicholetts believes ; but when they found him to be so stupid and insensible, they left him to subsist upon charity. They have now left Hasunpoor, and the age of the boy when carried off cannot be ascertained ; but he was to all appearance about nine or ten years of age when found, and he lived about three years afterwards. He used signs when he wanted anything, and very few of them except when hungry, and he then pointed to his mouth....