ISBN: 9781235890628

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RareBooksClub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 48 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: . . . valley. On it, near the point where the 36th milestone should have stood, an important discovery was recently made (Notizie degli Scavi, 1890, p. 160) of four milestones, within a few yards one of another, but none of them standing up. Of two of these milestones, which both bear the number xxxvi, one has no other inscription and perhaps belongs to the time of Nero, who constructed the Via Sublacensis; the other bears two inscriptions of much later date, one belonging to A. d. 305-306 (cf. C. I. L. IX. 5967), the other to a few years later. The third milestone, which is without a number, was erected between A. D. 367-375. The fourth milestone cannot be read with certainty. At this 36th mile from Rome, however, the Anio valley road (B) divided once more, one branch continuing as the Via Sublacensis southeastward. The other turned sharply to the north (this is the ancient branch-road (C) mentioned by Westphal), crossed the Ponte Seutonico (cf. p. 108 and Figs. 2 and 3) and gently climbed along the slope to Arsoli, running above and nearly parallel to the modern highway. In the defile north of Arsoli it crossed the Ponte di San Giorgio. We could not find any of its pavement, but saw several pieces of a splendid polygonal supporting-wall south of Arsoli (cf. also Annali dell Institute, 1829, p. 44, note (); 1831, p. 411, pl. F, 4). On it near Arsoli at a distance of about 5 Roman miles from Lamnae (Ost. della Ferrata, Maps, Plate XIII), or about 2 Roman miles from the above-mentioned milestones bearing the number xxxvi, was found that finely preserved milestone, bearing the number xxxvur (C. I. L. IX, 5963), now kept in the Villa Massimo at Arsoli. It was known to Stevenson as well as R. Fabretti (op. cit. p. 88). By measuring on the Map from Lamnae along the probabl. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub.com<