Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-11-19
ANCIENT ROME,
Recent Discoveries Made of
Great Interest.
Excavations Which Give More Ligh
on the Imperial City.
The Ancient Senate House An Eiuhth Centu ~
The Ancient Senate House. An Eiuhth Centu ~
Church Unearthed.

Not far flom my home on the t.S-
outline hill is the Roman Forum. says
Il correspondent OF the Pittsburg Dis
patch Well prepared by archaeological
study, and with Borsari's map in
hand. We 60 down among those ancient
monuments and wander about for
hours: east. west. north and south; in
the rectangular valley at the foot Of
the Palatine hill. which is now the GEN.
ter of archaeological research and dis
coyeries John Ruskin thought even
more of these stones than Of the
stones of Venice and at the end Of
his Iif.. Interested himself chiefly III
flowers and in the frequent reports OF
discoveries in the Forum sent him by
his friend. Engineer Giacomo Bonl.
This is the fortunate explorer who has
gained q world wide reputa ton in the
past three years during which he mas
directed these excavations. He has re-
,eiVed there kings and queens. lords
ana ladies. professors and scholars ol
an civilized nations. conducting them
about with enthusiasm and patience
from the Lapis Niger. OF supposed
comb of ROmulus to the FOUNTAIN ana
shrine of the Goddess Juturna to the
little nuadrangular celia of the temple
of Vesta. to the altar upon when
Caesars body was burned: to the
4..r,ed places Of the Regia. 70 the
ancient Eostra ana the Via Sacfa.
All these have been found recently.
AZ well as many Other monuments,
drains. wells. roads. bones OF men ana
animals vases. votiVe offerings. dlce.
hroi,on statues. coins and pol q
money. Little heaps OF bones az III
ta,v,Is show where men nave peet
buriad there. but whether IN h"flor 81
III harbaric punishmnt none can teli.
nth.r little heaps of broken pottery Oh
M 900. reoresented in the Forum.
III to he examined by the discerning
49,, of tho director He will then %atler
,h.r, into the small museum near me
,;r, If the Temple Of julius 'atSdi.
,,I,.,.. all nortabie objects VIII remain
for the present
THE aspect Of the Forum i ciia'ir
Once to be learned, it was suilicitil' ~
l,na,v the great arch OF 1el'''"
cay.,us the eight gray 2raHlu
unns of the Temple of saturn. '''e
of the Temple of Nespaslah' NY '1ii
x,,,hla columns and cornice - III
~ -.>,,Io of casio ana tolluN. '4N 9"
af ,r;tus with it's representation oI t,ie
eavnn- -branched candlestick. ana 'hr
t,hIa of the shew bread; the o'o 'oau
,',,,ooead tn be the Via Sacra ana
few others.
Now he who can distinguish ahions
bosa ruined walls and heaps VI
ttas.., uncovered drains ana 'iie ~
g ~ ran1ains of many centuries anu
ca1 the arches. the temples ''le -,
,taas tair - Nv their names is learned n
Gand TO the untutored eye ne ",,o1t ~
,.[n t-o,',r, looks like a disordered mass o5
stnnas blocks Of tufa, traVer.i'ie ,'i,a aiia
napar:ro: columns Of iut.u "''p af
p+oi;o marble. of red porphyry' VI
l.rar. n.y.. ante and purple pavonazze,'o,;
an earthquake could not nav 1ns rnur re
,nar,, 60 much. There lie the columns,
s,'e,a sn,,a yearly entire. others broken ln.o mo
ol' ee,,,ants or calcined in the great iie
tbaf tFa7 ravaged the Forum during ms, In tns
40, of Comodus. There are ,he ru','s
,.aIIs. great rectangular BLOCKS :.
darl. volcanic tufa or niue t,roa
blocks forming the opus re'.,ula nnn,,h,ic ,u,i
y pf't"a ,,'a 1ast days of the Roman republic
., ond a." the first of the empire. Many OIL