The archæology of Rome, Part 8 : $b The aqueductsParker, John Henry
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The archæology of Rome, Part 8 : $b The aqueducts
Parker, John Henry
Rome -- Antiquities
In 689*, a plan and section of the Torre Fiscale is shewn, with the
crossing of six aqueducts. 528 is a view of this tower and of the arches
of the aqueducts crossing each other under it, with the Aqua Felice in
the background. 529 shews the arch of the Claudia separately, and the
construction of it, with the Aqua Felice passing under this arch of the
Claudia. 530 gives very distinctly the arch of the Marcia, Tepula, and
Julia, with that of the Claudia passing over it. 531 and 532 are more
distant and general views of that tower, and the aqueducts passing under
it. 1439 is a side view of it, and of the old tombs on the Via Latina
in that part. 1004 shews the arches of the Claudia and Anio Novus in
perspective, and the opening into the _specus_ of the Claudia. In 550,
another fine portion of the arcade is shewn, with brickwork of Trajan.
The Porta Furba and a long line of the arcade is seen in the distance.
548 shews the Porta Furba at another crossing, with the fountain, and a
portion of the arcade of the Felice; with the Marrana in the bed of the
river Almo passing under it.
62 is a portion of the Claudian arcade, about half a mile nearer to Rome,
with the arches filled up with brickwork of the time of Trajan; at this
point there is another crossing. 63 shews a portion of the brickwork of
Trajan, originally built to strengthen the stone arcade; but the latter
has been carried away by the engineers of the Felice. 549 shews some
interesting repairs of the time of Nero, with massive square buttresses
faced with reticulated work. 70 is a medieval tower at the angle of the
garden of the Sessorian Palace, now of the monastery of S. Croce, near
the point where the aqueduct enters the wall.
547 shews the interior of the Tower and a _piscina_, at the entrance into
Rome, the four chambers of which are visible, the inner wall of this
tower having been destroyed; and into the interior of this the water of
the Claudia entered in the first chamber and went out at the fourth.
This photograph also shews the remains of a large _castellum aquæ_, now
forming part of the Wall of Rome, on the north side of the garden, with a
continuation of the arcade in the Wall of Rome in this part. In 544 the
_specus_ of the Claudia is plainly visible on the top of the wall, and
remains of the Anio Novus over it. In the distance are seen some of the
arches of Nero, across the valley and foss (?), from the angle near the
Porta Maggiore to the Cœlian Hill. This garden might very naturally be
called by Lampridius “The Garden of the Specus,” for the _specus_ in the
time of the Emperors must have been the most conspicuous object in it, or
visible from it (542).
412 shews another of these reservoirs in the same garden, with repairs in
brick by Trajan. The arcade of the Aqua Felice, built against the outside
of the Wall, is also seen through the arches of the Claudia.
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