Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . Late Etruscan House, with Atrium Tuscanicum (Dunn) Plate XXIII m THE KL^YXK I PUBLIC L r:,.Ry ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILDENFOUixD/.jiOUa ROMAN^ CITIES 127 at Cora as of pre-Roman workmanship, or atleast, previous to the third century It is oflarge blocks of tufa without any of the mixtureof materials, without the apertures in piers andthe breakwater buttresses which characterizeRoman work even of the late Republic. Muchas I am tempted to do so, however, I will notattribute to the Etruscans the superb bridge nearVulci called Ponte della Badia. It is at alleven

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Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . Late Etruscan House, with Atrium Tuscanicum (Dunn) Plate XXIII m THE KL^YXK I PUBLIC L r:,.Ry ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILDENFOUixD/.jiOUa ROMAN^ CITIES 127 at Cora as of pre-Roman workmanship, or atleast, previous to the third century It is oflarge blocks of tufa without any of the mixtureof materials, without the apertures in piers andthe breakwater buttresses which characterizeRoman work even of the late Republic. Muchas I am tempted to do so, however, I will notattribute to the Etruscans the superb bridge nearVulci called Ponte della Badia. It is at allevents not later than Augustus and may beearlier. Its main arch has a span of sixty-twofeet and rises nearly one hundred feet above theFlora, and its length is almost two hundred andfifty feet. It is surpassed only by the bridge atNarni. If I were to reduce this question of the monu-mental relations of Rome to Etruria to itssimplest expression it would be to advise a visitto Corneto-Tarquinii and to Cervetri-Caere asthe sites most acces

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