The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art (1860)
Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896, Wood, J. E, Davies, Benjamin Rees · London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts · leaf 55
some studies of the ruins; and,among other objects of curiosity, my fellow-traveller and myselffollowed the course of the city waUs, as far as they existed.One spot in particular caught our attention, already familiarwith the remains of ancient cities, as indicating a very peculiararrangement for a… … The walls had a fossa or ditch outside, at the distance ofsome forty feet; and this ditch was apparently about ten feetwide; but it is now quite filled in. There were two bridges totraverse the ditch, about twenty feet wide, and they led up to adouble opening or gateways, divided by a pier five…
Classical antiquities · Archaeology
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