Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . Etruscan Sarcophagus of Larthia Seiauti (Florence) with detailssimilar to Arco dAugust© and Porta Marzia. Etruscan Sarcophagus (Volterra) showing City Gate with heads in spandrels and galleryPlate XXV ROMAN CITIES 135 Perusia, his epigraphists were forced to cut theletters recording this fact most awkwardly andineffectively on the voussoir blocks. In Romangates and arches of the Augustan age and latera place for a horizontal inscription was Arco dAugusto just described corre-sponded to the Porta Decumana of a Romancolony,—at one end of the main
Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . Etruscan Sarcophagus of Larthia Seiauti (Florence) with detailssimilar to Arco dAugust© and Porta Marzia. Etruscan Sarcophagus (Volterra) showing City Gate with heads in spandrels and galleryPlate XXV ROMAN CITIES 135 Perusia, his epigraphists were forced to cut theletters recording this fact most awkwardly andineffectively on the voussoir blocks. In Romangates and arches of the Augustan age and latera place for a horizontal inscription was Arco dAugusto just described corre-sponded to the Porta Decumana of a Romancolony,—at one end of the main street. At theother end, corresponding to the even moreimportant Porta Praetoria, was the gate that hasalways been popularly called Porta in 1540 the younger Sangallo was calledupon by the pope to build him, at this point, animmense fortress to overawe the Perugians, hewas obhged to tear down the Porta JNIarzia; butas he came of a family of architects that for threegenerations had loved and copied antique monu-ments, he did what was perhaps unique at thistime,—took it down and reconstructed all itsessential and artistic
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