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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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as earljas the 6th cent.: on the wall wasfound a Christian calendar, which has t Trajan appears to have added a separatewing for women. K 2 132 Boide 14:.—The Baths of Tiim. Sect. I. been engraved by De Romauis. Fainttraces of frescoes representing S.Felicitas and hor martyred boys mayyet be discerned beliind the rudealtar, and on tlie stucco attached tothe rt. wall are some graffiti. Descending a few steps, we nowpass on the 1. a row of slaves rooms(7), and at the end of the corridorobserve on the 1., sunk below the levelof Neros palace, part of the pavement (2) of a more ancient private house,upon which he laid his foundations.To the rt. runs a long corridor orcrypto-porticus (3), excavated in 1813.Its beautifully painted ceiling will beshown by the Custodc, with the aidof tapers at the dnd of a long pole.The vault is pierced with square open-ings, tlu-ougii which Kaphael andGiovanni da Udine are said to havegained access, and admitted the lightnecpssaiy for copying the pnintings
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VIA LABICANA rAF.T OF THE PALACE OF NEKO UNDER THE UATHS OF TITUS. 1. Chapel of S. Felicitas. 2. Mosaic pavement of an earlier house. 3. Painting on vault. 4. Walls added by Titus. 5. Decorations of Nero. 6. Walls of Titus to support Theatre. 7. Room for slaves.S. Corridor (Nero).9. Unexcavated portion. The lioman Thermae were a combinationon a hue;e scale of the common Balneae withthe Greek Gymnasia. Their visual form wasthat of a large quadrangular space, the sides ofwhich were formed by various porticoes,oxedrae, and even theatres for fiymnastic andliterary exercises, and in the centre of whichstood a block of buildings containing the bath-rooms and spacious halls for undergoing thecomplicated process of the Roman warm Ijath.All were built of brick, and the interior wasdecorated with stucco, mosaics, or slabs ofmarble, and other ornamental stones. Theexterior of the Thermae was probably veryplain, and even unsightly, and illustrates theRoman tendency to develop the interior of thei

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