Herculaneum, past, present & future . Retinae Portus HERCULANUM. -r^~ /^M-f/y /y/fyy/ Y(;Joyf y/ /y /y/y/,y/yyyyyyfy//J :Jr/y<//fi-f/?f //y Ci m ^V tit* <^<x. bO ix. a-^aOt c luttii 0:.c iOO 400 ?SOr/^./f^ , rlOCJtT£PL^C^~£.JiAPJlil. LA VEGAS PLAN OF HERCULANEUM. From Ruggieros $cavt^ etc. Plate ii. CHAP. I TOPOGRAPHY 6i At right angles to these two streets ran five streets aboutthe same width as the narrower of them, but much closertogether, so that the whole town was divided into rectangularblocks or insulae. The narrower of the two parallel streetslay half-way b
Herculaneum, past, present & future . Retinae Portus HERCULANUM. -r^~ /^M-f/y /y/fyy/ Y(;Joyf y/ /y /y/y/,y/yyyyyyfy//J :Jr/y<//fi-f/?f //y Ci m ^V tit* <^<x. bO ix. a-^aOt c luttii 0:.c iOO 400 ?SOr/^./f^ , rlOCJtT£PL^C^~£.JiAPJlil. LA VEGAS PLAN OF HERCULANEUM. From Ruggieros $cavt^ etc. Plate ii. CHAP. I TOPOGRAPHY 6i At right angles to these two streets ran five streets aboutthe same width as the narrower of them, but much closertogether, so that the whole town was divided into rectangularblocks or insulae. The narrower of the two parallel streetslay half-way between the broader street and the edge of thetown. All this is clearly shown in the small map madeby Francesco La Vega,^ the last and best of the eighteenth-century excavators, and published in Carlo Rosinis Dissertatioisagogica ad Herculanensium voluminum explanationem, ^7()7 ;though the extreme difficulty of constructing such a map,owing to the character of the excavatio
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