. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . Tullianum, too, served as a memorialof antiquity, when it had been the sole source of supply. Thus fire and water, the two indispensable elements, had their 1 De Rossi, Casimiro, Memorie stor. delta chiesa S. Maria in Araceli (Roma, |1736), p. 1 ff. For the inscription and legend, see Gatti, Dissert, delta fto?itif. accad. \rom. di archeol., ser. 2, t. 6 (Roma, 1896), p. 331, 340. The text Haec arafilii Dei estmust repose on some other inscription. I suggested elsewhere that filii Dei is a mis- 1understanding of Deus fidius {semo sancus
. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . Tullianum, too, served as a memorialof antiquity, when it had been the sole source of supply. Thus fire and water, the two indispensable elements, had their 1 De Rossi, Casimiro, Memorie stor. delta chiesa S. Maria in Araceli (Roma, |1736), p. 1 ff. For the inscription and legend, see Gatti, Dissert, delta fto?itif. accad. \rom. di archeol., ser. 2, t. 6 (Roma, 1896), p. 331, 340. The text Haec arafilii Dei estmust repose on some other inscription. I suggested elsewhere that filii Dei is a mis- 1understanding of Deus fidius {semo sancus). HULSEN {Bilder aus der Gesch. des IKapitols, 1899, p. 30) thinks an inscription from the neighbouring Templum Fidei, for instance : Fidei Aug. Sacr., might have been construed as Filio Dei Augustus sacravit. < 2 Canina, Edijici di Roma antica, ii. tav. 133. Cp. MlDDLETON, Remains, i. p. 152 ; !Reber, Die Ruinen Roms, p. 109. In the upper square is now the Oratory of theCrucified, and above that the little church of S. Giuseppe dei 111. 59.—The Mamertine No. 170] THE MAMERTINE PRISON 251 monuments on the Forum. The pump-room of the Tullianumis partly hewn out of the tufa, and was at first vaultedover with huge dovetailed blocks of stone. The shape anddesign exactly correspond with the similar ancient pump-housestill extant among the ruins of Tusculum (111. 59, lowerchamber).1 At some date long before the Imperial period this littlecell was made into a very strong State prison, buildings beingadded above and beside it. It was then that the pump-roomwas provided with its flat roof with a single man-hole at the
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