The archæology of Rome, Part 8

by John Henry Parker

A. Section.

B. Plan, shewing the crossing of Five Aqueducts in the Tower, and two under it.

At this important junction and crossing of the aqueducts the Marcian arcade originally made one of the usual angles. The more lofty arcade of the Claudia and Anio Novus was then carried over it, with the Anio Vetus half underground, nearly on the same line; and the modern aqueduct, called the Felice, is here carried against and partly upon the old Marcian arcade. The medieval architects took advantage of this crossing to build a tall tower upon it; the five conduits or specus can be seen inside the tower, and half arches abutting against it in a very picturesque manner, all of which are shewn in the Section in the upper part of the plate, and in the Photo engravings.

The Plan in the lower part of the plate shews the arrangement, and also the small river Almo, now called the Marrana, winding round it.

Plate X.

X.

THE AQUEDUCTS.—CLAUDIA AND ANIO NOVUS.

Entering Rome in a Tower of the Sessorium.

A. Section.