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Frq/l Everett on an Inscription from the Columbarium 



whether for the renown of the illustrious family whose ashes it con- 

 tallied, or the light, which is thrown on palaeography by the inscrip- 

 tions discovered in it, is one of the most important remains of 

 Roman antiquity. One cannot 

 cessity which dictated it, the 



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he admits the 



transportation of th 



phagi, which 



the Vatican 



Not 



wantonly, however, to wound the feelings of those who visit the 

 spot where the Scipios were entombed, the places of the ancient 



sarcophagi have been supplied 



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by 



representing, in size, in the quality of the stone, and the inscript 



them, the 



which, for their 



preservation have 



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been transported to the Papal museum 



The Columbarium of the freedmen and slaves of the Augustan 



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house, without sharing that interest which is awakened by the tombs 

 of the Scipios and the Servilii, is still a curious monument of anti- 



I shall translate from Bianchini an account of its discovery 



In leaving Rome at what is commonly called the 



quity 



and si 



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gate of St. Sebastian's from one of the seven primary 



which the Appian Way conducts y 



said gate, after having 



procee 



half a mile, you reach, on the left, a church 



ed at the present day Domine quo Vadis^ from the vision^ by which 



St. Peter was warned back to Rome to suffer martyrdom." 



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Eight hundred feet beyond the first milestone you 



gate of a vineyard, on the left hand, within which, at the right 



hand, stands the sepulchre of the freedmen 



d domestics of JL 



and of the Augustan house. The owner of the vineyard is Joseph 

 Benci, a Roman ; who, having understood that there were reasons 



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» The ashes and bones .themselves were transferred to Padua, and deposited, 

 W a nobleman there, in a monument, with appropriate inscriptions. 



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