Wanderings in the Roman Campagna / by Rodolfo Lanciani.

  • Rodolfo Lanciani
Date:
1909
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wanderings in the Roman Campagna / by Rodolfo Lanciani. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It probably belonged to the class of the Sorrentini, which even now ply between the Bay of Naples and the mouth of the Tiber, laden with the heavy wine of Foria d’ Ischia. Its hulk was filled with amphora; cemented into a coralliferous mass, from which only a few specimens could be detached unbroken. Such also was the case with the Greek ship laden with works of Eros as a lamp-stand, before and after the process of cleansing; recovered from the wreck of a Greek ship on the coast of Numidia art in bronze and marble, found in the month of De¬ cember, 1908, opposite the harbor of Malidia on the coast of Tunisia, between Sousa and Sfax. A man diving for sponges was brought to the surface in a state of abject terror, having beheld forms of sleeping giants on the deck of a mysterious craft. The legend grew and was spread abroad, and reached the ears of the