The archæology of Rome, Part 8

by John Henry Parker

XV.

RIVER ALMO, NOW THE MARRANA.

Mouth in the Pulchrum Littus. View.

This is the mouth within the Walls of Rome from the earliest period, and it was here in all probability that the priests washed the blood off their knives, and not at S. Paul’s, a mile outside the town. The remains of the early wall of tufa in this part are well shewn in the drawing, and the mouth for the stream to pass through, left when the wall was built. This was part of the second Wall of Rome, built when the peace was made between the Romans and the Sabines. The construction of that period, of the usual large blocks of tufa with very fine joints, is clearly shewn in the drawing.

Plate XVI.

River Almo. Mouth in the Pulchrum Littus. Plan.

XVI.

RIVER ALMO, NOW THE MARRANA.

Plan of the Mouth in the Pulchrum Littus.