ing the enceinte, just as the Amphitheatres ofTreves or Tours were incorporated in the defences of those towns.The walls, as we see them at the present day, have undergonerestorations at various dates. Honorius in 403 rebuilt the towersand gateways, as we learn from inscriptions immured in three… … < 74 ARCHITECTURE chap, ii Pinciana and Porta Salaria, and in that immediately to the west ofthe Aniphitheatrum castrense. The material of the wall is concrete made with lumps of tufa(together with a few fragments of sculpture, architecture, andinscriptions), and faced with brick in the usual…
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