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Identifier: handbookofromeca00john (find matches)
Title: A handbook of Rome and the Campagna
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: John Murray (Firm)
Subjects: Rome (Italy) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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road, we passon the 1. the Farm of S. Sebastiano,and turn back to the rt. through awicket. Here we come upon thepavement of the Via Ostiensis, lead-ing to Kome and lined with tombson each side. On the 1. are two hugemarble sarcophagi of the 3rd cent.,which belonged to Sextus CarminiusParthenopaeus, a Decurion of Ostia,and T. Flavins Verus. In front ofthe Porta Hoinaiin, of which only thethreshold and the base of the jambsremain, is a square, ornamented witha semicircular fountain. Anotherfountain is seen 84 yds. within thegate. At the comer of the streetleading from this square, in the direc-tion of Laurentum (Castel Fusano),are the ruins of a small building, withrows of celiac and coarse mosaic pave-ment, once occupied by a militaryguard, as shown by some tahulae luso-riae dug up on the spot. ProceedingW., the pavement of the main streetleading to tlie Forum of Vulcan iswell preserved ; under it runs a largeleaden pipe, for water, impressed withthe mark Colonorum coloniae Ostiensis,
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