Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
Poet VergiPs Anniversary Finds Rome
Ready to Show Many New Discoveries

For many years tourists have been
taken down into a restaurant called
the Ulpia, and during dinner have had
pointed out to them the great stones
of the walls. AS q matter of fact, the
restaurant WAS ensconced in one OF
the semi-circular apses Of the ancient
Forum Of Trajan, whose Gentle name
was Ulpius. Scholars have been usu.
ally permitted these 40 years or more
to go back into the gardens of certain
private houses, where they have mar
veled at the lofty walls of brick which
once formed part of the great Forum
Of the Emperor Trajan.
Apollodorus. the architect who bull
the Emperor his new forum. was a resi-
dent of Damascus. When Trajan took
over by appropriation the area on which
his forum was to be built, there was
big bazaar there which housed most
OF the Syrian merchants in Rome. The
excavations this last year have laid bare
that part of the forum which gives proof
Of the cannineSs of the architect and OF
the wisdom of the Emperor. He must
have told his architect to build bazaar
as part of his construction, and in that
way to help him avoid the friction OF
unpleaSantneSs that might arise If the
SyrianS were entirely evicted. The
rooms now cleared show that the archi.
tect did his task satisfactorily both tc
the Emperor and tenants That par
of the forum is built on the same lines
as the bazaarS in Damascus or Aleppc
or Bagdad today, and the modern ba.
zaars are practically the same today a:
they were 5000 or 1000 years ago.
The Forum Of Augustus stretches
southwark from the Forum Of Trajar
and toward the first great forum of the
NffV II YrnlHn h1Nr hn Il,
cleared, due to one Of the maxims OF
archaeology. One may not properly de.
stroy any good piece Of less ancient OF
Of medieval construction in order to lay
bare something Older below, unless thu
higher object can be safely removed Oh
securely propped UP. In the ruins Of
the Forum of Augustus q great many
buildings were constructed, some of then
using the lofty and massive surround.
ing walls of the ancient forum. On tor
Of several stories of mixed ancient ant
medieval construction there was founC
short time ago O gem of medieval ar.
chitecture. It was the loggia Of the
Prtory OF the Knights of Rhodes, the
buildings connected Herewith being thu
lodge for the knights when they Wert
in the Holy City.
Rare Remains Found.
Several lines Of trolleys or trans rur
from the Piazza Venezia to Trastever,
across the Tiber). All Of them turn {
sharp corner and run along In front O
popular theater called the Argentina
Last year, to give traffic more room
the city authorities condemned a small
area at the corner turn. When the,
began to pull down the building Their
the wreckerS came upon what we o
today call the gold mine Of Italy,
J. e., the remains Of Roman antiquity
They found the steps and the lowe
parts OF several columns which archie
ologists at once. Identified as belongin,
to temple Of date earlier than 80 BIC
OF course ancient Rome takes preced
ence over modern Rome. Work wa.
begun at once with the usual scientific
care OF the italian Psychologists. an,
before the clearance was complete tn
foundations OF three rectangular tenn
pies and one circular temple were lait
bare.
Perhaps no discovery of late in Rom,
has created SO much excitement. inter
est and debate. Attributions Of all tn,
temples OF various deities have beer
made. Many broken pieces of statuar,
and of inscriptions have also beei
found, but as yet there Is not enough
agreement to warrant q definite state
ment as to the deitieS whose cults wer
worshiped in the four temples. IN,
architecture, however, Is not q bone O
contention. The work Is datable. an,
enough new elements have been identi
ned to supplement also certain defi
| ciencies in the knowledge of the build
ing OF temples Of the Republican epoch
Several italian psychologists of note
particularly Prof. Rodolfo Lancianj
have talked and planned for years t,
bring about the construction of al
archaeological avenue which woulI
extend from the Colosseum through tn
Arch OF Constantine and along tn
foot OF the Palatine Hill on the soutl
as far as the corner OF the Hill unde
the lofty walls known as the SeptiZo
MUM or Septizodium. The avenue
would there reach the beginning of tn
ancient Via Appia. which Roman writ
erS often refer to as the queen O
roads. The avenue would turn Their
and be a widened Appian Way, runnin,
| out southwark past the great baths o
| Ca-acalla, under the so-called Arch O
Drusus, and to the st. Sebastian Cat.
In the Aurelian wall Of the city.
Famous Old Roman Tomb.
From the Appian Way, about hal
way between the more ancient gate. tn
Porta Capena of the wall of Republi
can Rome, and the Pcrta San Sebas
tiano Of the Aurelian Wall, the oil
Latin Way diverged and took q cours
that brought 1t into the Alban Hills
near where the modern town of Frascat
! Is. Not far from the point where tn
Latin Way left the Appian is one o
the most famous of old Roman tombs
that Of the family Of the Scipios. On