Identifier: churchofsmariaan01rush (find matches)
Title: The church of S. Maria antiqua
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Rushforth, G. McN. (Gordon McNeil), 1862-1938 Ashby, Thomas, 1874-1931. Classical topography of the Roman campagna
Subjects: Santa Maria Antiqua (Church : Rome, Italy) Church decoration and ornament Art, Byzantine
Publisher: London : (Macmillan & Co.)
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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n the Campagna), andforming, as Nibby remarks, an oasis in the desert. The front of thecentral portion of the casale rests on an ancient building (apparently atomb), faced with brickwork, in which are seen the thin bricks, with verythin layers of mortar between them, characteristic of the beginning of thethird century, and in the courtyard some opus reticulatum may be seen.There are many architectural fragments of marble about; a fine piece ofcornice in the garden just beyond the bridge may be noted. In the court- Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna—I. 233 yard are several inscriptions : C.I.L. vi. 9182, and some others, copied andpublished by Tomassetti (Bull. Com. 1899, pp. 284-286). The dis-coveries in the tenuta have been many. Pier Leone Ghezzi, in a MS. inthe Vatican (Cod. Ottobon. 3106 f. 166: see Schreiber, Fundberichte desP. L. Ghezzi in Sitzungsberichte der k. Sachs. Gesellschaft d. Wissenschaften,1892, p. 142, nos. 67, 68) describes the sarcophagus with the myth of
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Fig. 18.—Bridge over Fosso del Giardinetto. Actaeon, found here in 1738, which at first belonged to the Borghesefamily, and is now in the-Louvre (Frohner, Notice, no. 103). See alsoFicoroni, Labico, p. 30 ( = mem. 61 in Fea, Miscellanea, i. 148). Ghezzi alsogives a drawing of a bronze female statue found here in 1742 (BritishMuseum, Townley MS. f. 143 : see Lanciani, Bull. Coin. 1893, 166). Arelief representing the education of Telephus or Artemis Kourotrophos(now in the Villa Borghese) was found either here or at Pantano in 1760(Helbig, Fiihrer, ii. no. 954). The inscriptions C.I.L. vi. 3606, 8443, 8498,15018, and the great mosaic of gladiators (now in the Villa Borghese) 234 The British School at Rome. discovered in 1834 in the Quarto called La Giostra x in the remains ofa large villa near the E. edge of the tenuta (Bull. Inst. 1834, 193 ; 1846,189 : Diss. Ace. Pont. Arch. xii. 73, where a full description is given byHenzen : Helbig, Fiihrer, ii. p. 124) also belong to this locali

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