Italy : handbook for travellers . THERM/t ANTONINlAN/t a d i u m iiinmmii. Returning to the Via di Porta S. Sebastiano, we next reach anarboretum on the left; then, a little beyond it, on the right, theancient church of ed Achilleo (PI. Ill, 23, 26; open in tliemorning) on the site of a temple of Isis, rebuilt by Leo 111. about800, and again by Card. Baronius at the end of the 16th , 12th May. The Inteuior e-xhibits the characteristics of an early basilica. At theend of the nave is an ambo on the left, supposed to be of great age, 17* 260 IV. Ancient Rome. ROME. Via Ap
Italy : handbook for travellers . THERM/t ANTONINlAN/t a d i u m iiinmmii. Returning to the Via di Porta S. Sebastiano, we next reach anarboretum on the left; then, a little beyond it, on the right, theancient church of ed Achilleo (PI. Ill, 23, 26; open in tliemorning) on the site of a temple of Isis, rebuilt by Leo 111. about800, and again by Card. Baronius at the end of the 16th , 12th May. The Inteuior e-xhibits the characteristics of an early basilica. At theend of the nave is an ambo on the left, supposed to be of great age, 17* 260 IV. Ancient Rome. ROME. Via Appia brought from S. Silvestro in Capite ; opposite is a marble candelabrum forthe Kaster- candles, of the 15th cent. Above the arch of the tribune arefragments of a mosaic of the time of Leo III.: Transfiguration, with Mosesand Elias, in front the kneeling Apostles, on the right the Annunciation,on the left the Madonna enthroned (comp. p. xlvii). The opposite church of , restored by Benedict XIII., con-tains nothing worthy of note. The monastery was dedicated to
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