Wanderings in the Roman campagna . nd the edge. These cameos are constantlypicked up in vineyards and orchards, which extend overancient cemeteries, and as they still show traces of theglue by means of which they were fastened into theirsockets, they must have been thrown away as a use-less incumbrance by those who were seeking for metalalone. The latest discovery connected with the intentionalconcealment of rich graves took place in June of lastyear (1908), at the first milestone of the Via Colla-tina, where the new freight station of Rome is beingerected. Here a mass of concrete was found, a
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . nd the edge. These cameos are constantlypicked up in vineyards and orchards, which extend overancient cemeteries, and as they still show traces of theglue by means of which they were fastened into theirsockets, they must have been thrown away as a use-less incumbrance by those who were seeking for metalalone. The latest discovery connected with the intentionalconcealment of rich graves took place in June of lastyear (1908), at the first milestone of the Via Colla-tina, where the new freight station of Rome is beingerected. Here a mass of concrete was found, and insideof it a recess lined with bricks, and inside the recess,in the core of the concrete, one of the most beautifulsarcophagi I have ever seen, a masterpiece of Hadriansgolden age. It contained the skeleton of a full-grownman, a perfume goblet, and a silver penny of the timeof Titus. Judging from the scenes represented on thefront of the coffin, the buried man must have servedon the staff of Trajan in one or more of his Dacian. < oo a o oo <!f. THE LAND OF SATURN 29 campaigns, and attained great distinction. What mostimpresses the beholder of this splendid work is the har-monious distribution of the groups, the exquisite careof details, so artfully concealed that it does not inter-fere with the general effect of the composition, and theclever way in which the national characteristics of theconquerors and the conquered are rendered: the Ro-mans with clear-cut, refined features and slender figures,the Dacians with unkempt hair and beard, and power-ful, heavy frames. The sarcophagus is now exhibitedin the Museo Nazionale alle Terme. I must now discuss a question strictly connectedwith the history and fate of the Campagna. that ofthe summer villas of the wealthy and the cannot be any doubt that the sunny slope of Tus-culum, Alba, Tibur, and Prseneste did offer admirablesites for the erection of villas and cottages; but it isequally certain that, owing to
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