Architectura numismatica; or, Architectural medals of classic antiquity: illustrated and explained by comparison with the monuments and the descriptions of ancient authors, and copious text. One hundred lithographs and woodcuts (1859)
Donaldson, Thomas Leverton, 1795-1885 · London, Day & son · leaf 400
ructions of Alexander Severus. And at thesame time we must render a just homage to the sagacityof Nibby, since fifteen years only elapsed between thedeath of Septimius Severus, under which the Romanantiquary placed the construction of the monument,and the fifth year of Alexander Severus, at which… … NYMPH^UM OF ALEXANDER SEVERUS, ROME. 277 restoring the monuments elevated by the ancient em-perors, but that he constructed a great many freshones: Opera veterum principum instauravit, ipsenova multa instituit. We might content ourselves with classing the foun-tain of the Esquiline Mount among…
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