Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . lvisciolo!It seems to me quite clear that in these tombs weshould recognize that part of Norbas necropolisin which its earlier inhabitants were buried andthat further researches in this region will prob-ably bring to light the later tombs, at a greaterdistance. It was a great pleasure to me while at Norbato do the honors of the place to the GovernmentArchaeological Commission which came down toinvestigate the work I was doing. To all ofthem, in fact to every Italian archaeologist exceptRodolfo Lanciani, Norba had been until then asealed book and none of the
Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . lvisciolo!It seems to me quite clear that in these tombs weshould recognize that part of Norbas necropolisin which its earlier inhabitants were buried andthat further researches in this region will prob-ably bring to light the later tombs, at a greaterdistance. It was a great pleasure to me while at Norbato do the honors of the place to the GovernmentArchaeological Commission which came down toinvestigate the work I was doing. To all ofthem, in fact to every Italian archaeologist exceptRodolfo Lanciani, Norba had been until then asealed book and none of them had visited then they have shown much The truth probably is that Norba was a cityfounded not long before or after the eighth cen-tury, enlarged and strengthened in about 492and changed in the regular course of events untilits destruction in 82 before Christ. What I would have to say about the cyclopeanruins of Setia and of Cora would be in a wayrepetitious. There is, to be sure, a variant at THE NEW YCl •«?. Terracina, Substructures of Temple of Jupiter Plate XII RO:\IAN CITIES 97 Cora In the arrangement of the walls, which areterraced in tliree circuits. But Cora needs visit-ing on account of quite another architecturalfeature: its two temples. They are, both of them,of the late Republican era, and in their age andpreservation are paralleled only by the two tem-ples of Tivoh. In both cases the picturesquenessof their site, jutting out at the edge of the town,with a superb view over an extensive valley, addsto their intrinsic beauty. They have been shownto exempHfy the Hellenic variations from hori-zontal and vertical lines to produce certain opticaleffects. One of them was probably the Capi-tolium temple and the other the temple of Castorand Pollux which stood at the approach to thesquare of the forum in the position appropriateto their character of guardians of the city andmessengers of Jupiter. The forum was evidentlyremodeled under Sulla, or shortl
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