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‘Frontispiece to Volume III’ with the Ancient Circus of Mars with neighboring monuments viewed from the Appian Way, plate 2 from a set of 54 plates, G. Piranesi, Le Antichità Romane, vol.III, bound in Paris by Tessier, 1803-1807, etching with engraving by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Rome 

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Church of S. Giorgio in Velabro - Carved Frame of a circular Window, c. A.D. 1295, filled up with fragments of early Tombstone from the Catacombs.

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Aqueducts - Above Subiaco, Anio Novus, A.D. 50, Specus cut in the Cliff of the Valley of the River Anio, in the Bank of the Upper Lacus or Loch, with a View of the Casino Gori.

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Aqueducts - Arches of Nero on the Caelian, between the great reservoir over the Arch of Dolabella and the Colosseum, now in the garden of the Passionists of SS. John and Paul

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Aqueducts - View of the Specus of a branch of the Aqua Virgo (?), in the Catacomb of S. Priscilla in the Via Salaria, the Specus half filled up with clay deposit.

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Frontispiece to Volume III

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Large porphyry sarcophagus from the Mausoleum of St. Helen