The Archaeological journal . mm •?•*:? TEMPLE OF AUOUSTUS AND ROMA: POLA. THE ANTIQUITIES OF POLA AND AQUILEIA. 241 I. The Temple of Rome and Augustus at Pola has beenstudied and visited by many generations of scholars andtravellers ; by Spon, the famous epigraphist; by our owncountrymen, Pococke, Wheeler and Stuart, the last wellknown for his great work on the Antiquities of Athens ;more recently by Gregorutti, Kandler and inscription originally consisted of bronze letters,affixed by nails to the stones of the architrave (epistyUum),as was the case in the arch of Septimius Severu
The Archaeological journal . mm •?•*:? TEMPLE OF AUOUSTUS AND ROMA: POLA. THE ANTIQUITIES OF POLA AND AQUILEIA. 241 I. The Temple of Rome and Augustus at Pola has beenstudied and visited by many generations of scholars andtravellers ; by Spon, the famous epigraphist; by our owncountrymen, Pococke, Wheeler and Stuart, the last wellknown for his great work on the Antiquities of Athens ;more recently by Gregorutti, Kandler and inscription originally consisted of bronze letters,affixed by nails to the stones of the architrave (epistyUum),as was the case in the arch of Septimius Severus at Rome. KOMAE • ET • AVGVSTO ? CAESARI ? D1VI ? F ? PATRI ? PATRIAE. In honour of Rome and Augustus Caesar, son of the deified(Julius), father of his country. I have repeated the text of Mommsen in the fifthvolume of the Corpus lnscriptionum Latinarum, containingthose of Cisalpine Gaul. He says that he copied theletters as they can be read from the upper part of a houseopposite. The sloping character
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