. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . No. ni THE WALLS OF ROME 165 harmony and great technical skill. At intervals of one hundredRoman feet strong towers are placed, which, the better to defendthe wall, project above and beyond it. They are mostly square,but occasionally round (111. 32).1 There are altogether no less than381 of them. The wall itself averages fifty-three feet in the towers and the wall are brick built. In its lower andmore massive parts the wall reaches an average thickness of. 111. 33.—The Aurelian plan of a portion with round towers. abo
. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . No. ni THE WALLS OF ROME 165 harmony and great technical skill. At intervals of one hundredRoman feet strong towers are placed, which, the better to defendthe wall, project above and beyond it. They are mostly square,but occasionally round (111. 32).1 There are altogether no less than381 of them. The wall itself averages fifty-three feet in the towers and the wall are brick built. In its lower andmore massive parts the wall reaches an average thickness of. 111. 33.—The Aurelian plan of a portion with round towers. about four yards. A lofty open gallery ran all round the interiorside, roofed over with arches, supported by strong gallery is still visible in many places. Loopholes (fenestrae),narrowing outwards, opened from the gallery on to the arches of the gallery supported a second and smaller gallery,along which, behind the battlements, sentinels could pace fromtower to tower. This upper walk was reached by stairs insidethe tower (111. 31).2 118. After these fortifications had been restored underHonorius, in 403, the geometrician Ammon issued a shortofficial account of the work. This is still preserved to us inthe famous Einsiedeln codex, but the text has been slightlyaltered in the eighth century—about the time of Pope Hadrian—to bring it into closer conformity with the state of the wallat that date. According to Amnions minute statistics theearly parapet had 7020 embrasures (propugnacul
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