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Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)

Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 117

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e Roman chief; in the lower sculpture thebattering-ram is crushing with heavy blows the walls of abeleaguered city. On the front facing the Capitol, thebas-reliefs depict, in the upper compartment, anotherimperial oration to the troops ; beneath, the siege ofAtra, a very animated and… … prince, the crossing of tlie Tigris, and the flight of Arta- banus the Persian. To the right of this stately memorial of the Empirestood the Rostra^ or AncientTribunal, now represented bya semicircular wall, faced withcoloured marbles. From its plat-form the Roman orators werewont to address the…

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