Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . a pas-sage meters wide, ascending along the northflank of the citadel and that the columns, placedabout meters apart, supported an architravewith a Doric frieze, similar in style to what wascurrent under the Republic from Xorth Etruriato Campania. I will refer only briefly to a small templefound, in very ruinous condition, outside the citygates. It was evidently of no importance, and isinteresting only from the scarcity of the templesof the Republican era thus far unearthed. Ithad a single cella and a pronaos with only twocolumns on the front. The
Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . a pas-sage meters wide, ascending along the northflank of the citadel and that the columns, placedabout meters apart, supported an architravewith a Doric frieze, similar in style to what wascurrent under the Republic from Xorth Etruriato Campania. I will refer only briefly to a small templefound, in very ruinous condition, outside the citygates. It was evidently of no importance, and isinteresting only from the scarcity of the templesof the Republican era thus far unearthed. Ithad a single cella and a pronaos with only twocolumns on the front. The important part con-sists in the terra cotta decorations, which supple-ment those of Falerii in helping us to reconstitutethe ornamental scheme of an Etruscan is reconstructed with its decoration and poly-chromy in the court of the Etruscan [Museum(Villa Giulia) in Rome. Of the really impor-tant temples of Alatri not a trace has been found. r ^ PI THE JJEW YORK PUBLIC LRAR?*> ASTOR, AND ;n foc - U a • ^^ fcf. c *^ c *-> cr* c <u cS o *- ^ c -t-l &. 5 «f-i C H) ^ +- cc CC o &H <u ^ *- >, ^ b o c Plate viT ROMAN CITIES 49 Ferextixo At Ferentinum, the modern Ferentino, there isno such acropolis as at Alatri, but the city wallsand gates are both better preserved, and alsoextremely curious in the way they show the juxta-position of Roman work of the early Republicanperiod above the original cyclopean was much higher in the hills, at five hundredand two meters, while Ferentino was on a gentlerslope overlooking the broad valley, at only threehundred and ninety-three meters, and a city ofgreater size and imi^ortance. The most imposing gate is now called PortaSanguinaria. It originally either had a woodenarchitrave or was entirely of stone, and as itwould have been impossible to span the doorwaywith a single block we must imagine in that casethat the upper blocks projected and were cutback at their ba
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