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Companion to Roman history (1912)
Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 214
of these was the burial-place of the Cornelii Scipiones,first discovered in the seventeenth century, but not completelyexcavated until the close of the eighteenth. It lay in the angleformed by the Appian Way and a cross-road connecting it withthe Via Latina, and consisted in a number of… … © Oh S© J2 186 AKCHITECTUKE chap, ii the first century a. d.) three chambers of brickwork ; in these (asthe inscriptions show) freedmen of the Cornelii were buried. Theentrance of the tomb had a facade with cornice and engagedcolumns of tufa. The Cornelii, we are told, retained the customof…Art · Architecture
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