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Archaeological Discoveries in Italy and the Mediterranean During 1930*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2012
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Work continues in Rome with the same energy as before, and a fresh impulse may be said to have been given to it by the publication of the new ‘Piano Regolatore’ for Rome, which is providing for the growth of the city to double its present size so that it will have a population of two millions. There is no doubt at all that numerous demolitions are necessary, if the scheme is really to be carried into effect.
That the necessity is regrettable, few will deny; but it cannot be too often repeated that the fundamental mistake was made long ago, when modern Rome was allowed to grow upon every side of the old city, instead of being put on the high ground to the east of it, as Quintino Sella and Haussmann had suggested. The old city must, therefore, inevitably be traversed by important arteries of traffic (pls. I, II); and we can only hope that as little as possible of beauty and interest will be removed, as we are assured will be the case. And critics of the scheme, whether benevolent or not, must do their best neither to minimise nor to exaggerate the importance of what must inevitably disappear.
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page 1 note 1 Described by DrAshby, in Town Planning Review xiv (1931)Google Scholar: we are also indebted to the Editors of this periodical and to Mr. Luigi Lenzi for the loan of blocks used in plates I and II.
page 2 note 2 Rome: Bibl. d'Arte editrice.
page 2 note 3 These views are now definitely superseded by Saeflund's, G.Le mura di Roma repubblicana (Lund, 1932)Google Scholar which shows the work in cappellaccio to be later repairs to the fourth-century wall, using local stone. The chief work of Servius was the agger, the earthwork on the Viminal, which undoubtedly belongs to his epoch. See, however, Lugli, G., ‘Le mura di Servio Tullio e le cosi dette mura serviane’ in Historia vii (1933), 3 ff.Google Scholar For the Capitoline fragment, see Capitolium, 1930, and Arch. Anz. 1930, 367, Abb. 24, 25.
page 3 note 4 Arch. Anz. 1930, 364.
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page 7 note 16 Illustrated London News, February 14, 1931.
page 7 note 17 Papers of the British School at Rome i, 1902, 178; cf. JRS XXI, 280.
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page 8 note 19 N. di Scavi 1930, 353–55; cf. JRS XX, 14, pl. i. For similar dolls, see AJA xxxiv, 1930, 455–479.
page 8 note 20 See Year's Work in Classical Studies 1931, 133 for references to this ephemeral discussion, the definitive account being still to seek.
page 8 note 21 Arch. Anz. 1930, Abb. 14.
page 9 note 22 Arch. Anz. 1930, Abb. 15, 16.
page 9 note 23 Op. cit. Abb. 13; Arch. Anz. 1931, Abb. 4, 5.
page 9 note 24 Boll. Assoc. Internaz. Stud. Mediterr, i, no. 1, 21.
page 9 note 25 Arch. Anz. 1930, 313.
page 10 note 26 Atti II Congr. Naz. Studi Rom. i, 1931: Arch. Anz. 1930, 327; 1931, 635–6.
27 N. di Scavi 1930, 113–184.
28 N. di Scavi 1930, 214–226 (Treglia), 226–228 (Castellone).
29 Boll. Assoc. Internaz. Studi Mediterr. 1932, iii, no. 3, 21–29, pls. vii–ix.
30 N. di Scavi 1929, 354–476.
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38 Clara Rhodos, ii (Ialysos), iv (Kameiros).
39 Boll. Assoc. Internaz. Stud. Mediterr. i, no. 2, 21, pl. X, 2.