. The life of the Greeks and Romans. 387 Scaurus, interesting by its bas-reliefs representing gladiators(compare Figs. 505, 507, 508).To conclude we add anillustration of a portionof the Yia Appia, nearRome. This importanthighway was peculiarlyadapted to be adornedwith tombs and othermonuments, the traces ofwhich have been disco-vered for a distance ofseveral miles from carefully examin-ing the remains and com-paring them with othermonuments, the architectCanina has tried to illus-trate parts of the Yia intheir original appear-ance. Fig. 413 is a re-production of one of theseattempt
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. 387 Scaurus, interesting by its bas-reliefs representing gladiators(compare Figs. 505, 507, 508).To conclude we add anillustration of a portionof the Yia Appia, nearRome. This importanthighway was peculiarlyadapted to be adornedwith tombs and othermonuments, the traces ofwhich have been disco-vered for a distance ofseveral miles from carefully examin-ing the remains and com-paring them with othermonuments, the architectCanina has tried to illus-trate parts of the Yia intheir original appear-ance. Fig. 413 is a re-production of one of theseattempts. 79. We now come tothose monuments which,instead of being the re-ceptacles of dead persons,served to prolong thememory of their deedsand merits. Some monu-ments served both astombs and memorialstructures (compare ourremarks about the keno-taphion of the Greeks,§ 24, c). The moststriking illustration of the combination of these two different purposes is the columnof the Emperor Trajan, to which we shall have to return. Fig. c c 2. 388 MONUMENT AT IGEL. 414 shows a monument, which in a manner forms the con-necting link between the two species of edifices alluded to. Itlies near the village of Igel, in the vicinity of Treves ; ourillustration shows the north side. It is built of freestone, andrises in several divisions to a height of 64 feet, according to thelowest of the different measurements. The sides towards northand south are 15, those towards east and west 12 feet wide. Thesteep roof, resembling a pyramid with curved outlines, is adornedwith decorations not unlike scales. It is crowned by a sort ofcapital, adorned with human figures in the four corners, on whichrests a globe supported by four small sphinxes. Some fragmentson the top of this globe seem to indicate that here was placedoriginally an eagle carrying a human figure to heaven—anapotheosis of the persons to whom the monument was these greatly injured sculptures we observe a profusion offigure
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