The church of SMaria antiqua . re lined is very hard opus signinum. It is curious thatNibby {Analisi, iii. 45) mistook the main passage of this system for thespecus of the Aqua Virgo, for the level is far too high : the aqueduct doesas a fact pass under the hill, but at a lower level. Nibby also mentionsthe existence of opus quadratum and opus incertum behind the older 1 For the use of this and some other photographs (Figs. 4, 7, 12) I am indebted to the Miss Dora Bulwer. 142 The British School at Rome. casale. These remains have now disappeared, but, besides the mosaicpavement men
The church of SMaria antiqua . re lined is very hard opus signinum. It is curious thatNibby {Analisi, iii. 45) mistook the main passage of this system for thespecus of the Aqua Virgo, for the level is far too high : the aqueduct doesas a fact pass under the hill, but at a lower level. Nibby also mentionsthe existence of opus quadratum and opus incertum behind the older 1 For the use of this and some other photographs (Figs. 4, 7, 12) I am indebted to the Miss Dora Bulwer. 142 The British School at Rome. casale. These remains have now disappeared, but, besides the mosaicpavement mentioned above, fragments of marble reliefs and an Ioniccapital testify to the presence of an important building here. A few yearsago a marble cippus was found here decorated with reliefs on all four front represents the facade of a tomb : on each side of the door is acypress, and beyond this a square pilaster : on the back is a well executedrelief of a bull, while on each of the sides is an olive tree, with a stork on. Fig. i.—Tufa Quarries (Grotte di Cervara) either side, one of which holds a snake. The cippus measures 071 m. inwidth by C53 in depth : the top is broken off, and the height is at presentl02 m. To the , not far from the road, are the remains of a the N. of the casale, at a distance of a mile and a half from the road,and close to the Anio, are more quarries like those of Cervara. Amongthese, close to the river bank, is a small platform supported by walls ofrough opus quadratum of tufa, with architectural fragments in travertine,which may be the base of a small temple. Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.—I. 143 Parkers assertion that he had found the specus of the Aqua Appiain the quarries of La Rustica is not credible, not to mention the factthat the quarries are just double the distance named by Frontinus fromthe Via Collatina, (see Lanciani, loc. cit.), and no springs that couldbe taken for those of the aqueduct are at present v
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