. Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. n fact the whole disposition of the edificesabout here was changed, as proved by comparing the earlier with thelater classical notices, and the excavations of 1883-4. To commemorate this rebuilding a silver coin was struck by the em-press, bearing her head on the obverse ; andon the reverse is the Temple of Vesta inthe background, in front of which standsau altar, and on either side are three vir-gins, two of whom are pouring an oblationover the altar
. Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. n fact the whole disposition of the edificesabout here was changed, as proved by comparing the earlier with thelater classical notices, and the excavations of 1883-4. To commemorate this rebuilding a silver coin was struck by the em-press, bearing her head on the obverse ; andon the reverse is the Temple of Vesta inthe background, in front of which standsau altar, and on either side are three vir-gins, two of whom are pouring an oblationover the altar. This new arrangement of the buildingsis thus exactly described by Servius ( vii. 153): By the Temple of Vestawas the Regia of Numa Pompilius, butnear to the Atrium of Vesta, which wasdistinct from the temple. Standing just inside, at the top of the stejjs, we have the wholeAtrium Vestse, as their residence was named, uncovered before us—a large peristylium paved with black and white mosaic, 222 feetlong by 76 feet wide. Standing out thirteen feet from the boundarywall of the Atrium, and extending all round the court, were forty-. DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE. 52 RAMBLE I. four columns of various marbles, whilst under the colonnade were thepedestals bearing honorary inscriptions and statues of High Vestals:sixteen on each side, six at the top, and six at the bottom. Of these,thirteen honorary inscriptions have been found dedicated to six dif-ferent High Vestal Virgins, the Lady Superiors of the slight fragments of other inscriptions were also found, makingseventeen in all. Twelve of the statues, more or less perfect, havealso been found: likewise an honorary pedestal to Caracal la; and astatue to Vettius Agorius Prtetextatus, erected to this champion ofpaganism, 367 , by CVelia Concordia, the last of the High VestalVirgins. At the east end of the Atrium is the fountain, beyond which is astep up on to a tesselated pavement, and from that four steps leadint
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