The church of SMaria antiqua . f ancient habitation ; nor have we any clue to an identificationwith any of the Latin cities named by classical authors. The villagecontains several granite columns, part of a fine fountain basin of redporphyry, and three or four inscriptions (Nibby, Analisi, iii. p. 740, 2830 sqq., where several inscriptions found in the neighbourhood arealso given). About a mile beyond the turning of the road to Zagarolo the ancientpavement of the road to Palestrina begins to appear in good preservation, 268 The British School at Rome. just on the N. of the modern ro
The church of SMaria antiqua . f ancient habitation ; nor have we any clue to an identificationwith any of the Latin cities named by classical authors. The villagecontains several granite columns, part of a fine fountain basin of redporphyry, and three or four inscriptions (Nibby, Analisi, iii. p. 740, 2830 sqq., where several inscriptions found in the neighbourhood arealso given). About a mile beyond the turning of the road to Zagarolo the ancientpavement of the road to Palestrina begins to appear in good preservation, 268 The British School at Rome. just on the N. of the modern road, and continues to run by it for morethan a mile until it reaches the chapel of S. Agapito, where it joins anotherdeverticulum—the road which leaves the northern branch of the ViaLatina at the Casale Mezza Selva, and, after it has crossed the modern ViaCasilina (which is here slightly to the N. of the Labicana), is called theOlmata di Palestrina (p. 272). Returning to S. Cesareo, at the Casale itself we find few remains of. Fig. 23.—Sarcophagus and Architectural Fragments, Villa Rospigliosi. antiquity, except several blocks of white marble. Rosa tells us however{Bull. Inst. 1856, 154) that in 1855 a large building was found close to theroad, which probably belonged to the station, and that several statues aresaid to have been discovered, which may (he thinks) have been those whichgave their name to it. The Villa Rospigliosi contains several statues andarchitectural fragments (Fig. 23),1 including several columns of grey marble ;also the inscriptions xiv. 2827, 2829. 2828, which was once here, is 1 The same photograph (which I took in January, 1900) will be found reproduced in LancianisNew Tales of Old Rome, p. 33. Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.—I. 269 now lost, and the best specimens of statuary, including a set of portraitbusts, have been sold to a dealer. In the valley below the villa, to the E., is a large nymphaeum of opusmixtum, near which is th
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