New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Worlz112an's Tall Uncartlls Statue
OF Caesar Augustus i'm Rome
Comrades in Digging Ous
Victim Of Accident Come
Upon Temple Of Jovc and
Bust OF Creat Emperor
From q Snccnl Correanondent

ROME, Nov. 25.-During the last
year the Government Department Of
Excavations has extended its work in
order to give thousands Of unskilled
werknen out Of Jobs sufficient employ
ment to keep them from being idle.
Mary wonderful discoveries have been
made outside the Porta Maggiore Of
Rome, whore q statue of Apollo dating
to an archaic epoch was uncarthed.
Recently, while improving The drainage
of the celebrated Monsa Pondcrarium,
the Rome Office Of weights and meas
urcs during the Roman Empire,
workman slipped and in digging him
out they unoarthcd, first, a wonderful
marble inaid pavement, and then the
perfectly preserved marble head Of an
Emperor.
The professor in charge of the cxca-
vations carefully superintendcd the
further excavations in order that the
rest Of the statue might not be dam
aged. This temple, which after being
completely eXcsvated, has proved to be
an ancient temple Of Jovc, probably
d. ting back 10 the sixth or seventh CEN
trry B. c., faces on what is called the
Plaza del 'Olmo, whore the cathedral
stands. 1t is believed that hero, the
center of encient Tbur, on ihe site
of the modern buildings stood the Gu
ria Tiburtina.
The temple which has just been ex-
cavatod Is oDiong with wonderful
pavement ormed OF cream ma shla aud
old yellow marble or ciss Termed into a
conventional design, wonderfully per-
feet and ursroilel as ii mother earth
had conserved it through the centuries.
Statue Of Caesar Augustus
At one end is an anse, the back wall
Of which is frcscocd in red with gar
lara OF lnurels fcstooning the wall.
The statue, which is supposed to be of
Einperor Caesar AugOst,is, is in three
parts, and can be restored, ss the head,
the drapcd torso and the base are as
perfect as on the triumrhQrt day it
was placed in the temple. This statue
rcprescnts Cesar Augustus as d middle
aged man.
The inscription found near the
pedestal reads: "Pro-saiate ct reditu
domin nos;ri August Cesaris." Up
to the present the experts hnve not
decided at waat epoch in the life Of the
Emperor, patron OF al the arts, this
statue was made.
in exrreesicn. an5 prosahly Mt that
time seesjp. heath in TIE aalsbrious
town Of fTsur and evidently from the
Inscription cared Of soMe severe ILL.,
ness. 1t probably was after the battle
ei Actism. 81 p. c. in which he was
victorious against Msrc Antony, when
from gratitude the Senate Conferred
on hs,n tae titlH of Avelstus, In "
2. c., title which was borne by all
the cn,nerors afrer~.rd. He was
grandnonhew Of CafAs Julius Cwalr,
and was born in ea 3. c., so thet the
statuc n1Nrt have BEEN carved when
he wss about forty ye.rs old. 1t was
Marc Antony who contested his right
OF srcccssion 10 Julius Casar, and al
though the ,riuMvirato Marc Antony
BruJus and Cassius were powerful, he
succeaaded in gathering around him
innnmerabc followers WHO willingly
drove antony from Rame over The
Alps. He then was fcrccd. in order
to save his enpire, to fgAt Cassus
and Hfrttis, who held with the Rcpub-
leans the eastern oerticn of the en-