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Companion to Roman history (1912)
Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 216
lebration of sepulchral rites. In a smalltomb adjoining the niche—and forming part of the same property—was found the fine blue glass vase now in the Naples Museumwhich is mentioned on p. 438. On the extreme left of the picturemay be seen part of a semicircular bench or scJwla, upon which is… … a1to ©O o a.o s-lo 188 ARCHITECTURE chap, ii a statue, set up at the public expense, of one Aulus Veins, a localmagnate., It was of course only the wealthy who could afford to purchaseland and erect tombs on such valuable sites as those immediatelyoutside the city gates. At Rome the growth of…Art · Architecture
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