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Title: Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923
Subjects: Cities and towns, Ancient Cities and towns -- Italy Architecture, Roman Italy -- Antiquities Dalmatia (Croatia) -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Sturgis & Walton Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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excavations were re-sumed and had been continued intermittentlyand wdth small means before Bulics energy-found a better way. Until recently the chiefresults have been the uncovering of an imposinggroup of Early Christian monuments of all sortsbelonging to the age when Salona had grownto be a metropolis. The greatest known open-air Christian cemetery with its multitude of stonesarcophagi and inscriptions was found, with alarge basilica as its center. This, of course, wasoutside the city walls; then there was uncoveredthe episcopal basilica within the city, with all itsannexes—baptistry, confirmation hall, episcopalpalace, and hospice. But now the earlier ruins are claiming re-newed attention, and for two seasons the maincenter of work has been the city gate calledPorta Caesarea, a structure already partlycleared in Carraras excavations of 1849, butsoon reinterred without thorough investigation.The east face and part of the passage have beenfreed, and several fragments of an Augustan
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Salona, Basilica and Cemetery

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