Excerpt from The Remains of Ancient Rome, Vol. 2
List of works of art in the Campus Martins which are mentioned in Plinys Jliytufiii Xtittiralis . Pages 215-218Chapter VII Various Buildings; Temple of Venus and Roma, its existing remains; the Basilica of Constantino; remains on the Caelian Hill, Domus Vectiliana ;early Christian house; Temple of Minerva Medica, the supposed and the real one; the Sessorium ;the Praetorian Camp, its existing remains; private houses in Rome, the so-called Villa of Maecenas; mosaic floors; the Horti Sallustiani ;remains of the Villa of Sallust; Temple of Venus Erycina; marble throne; river-side houses, wall-paintings and reliefs in stucco of Greek style; plaster casts; other houses; a Roman library; the Barracks of the Vigiles ;scratched inscriptions; Barracks of the Imperial horse-guards or Equites Singulares ;the Horrea of Rome; storage of corn and other goods219-262 Chapter VIII Tombs And Honorary Monuments; interments with and without burning; sepulchral aediculae; beautiful stucco reliefs, richly coloured; road-side tombs; tombs of the Gens Cornelia; sepulchral inscriptions; tomb of Cornelius Lucius Scipio; Imperial columbaria; various forms of columbaria; tomb of Eurysaces the baker and his wife Atistia ;tomb of Bibulus; tombs near the Porta Salaria ;tomb of the Gens Licinia, of Piso and others; sculptured marble sarcophagi; tomb of Lucilius Poetus ;tomb of the freedman Menander; tomb of the Gens Sempronia ;Pyramid of Cestius ;other tomb pyramids; tomb of Marcella; Imperial sepulchres; Mausoleum of Augustus, the Ustriua Caesarum ;Mausoleum of Hadrian and Castle of Sant Angelo, bronze fir cone and peacocks.
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