Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club Volume 18 baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...Lastly, the staircase leading from the entrance hall may be noticed; the balustrade of this is an elaborate specimen of Flemish carved oak of about 1650. It came, I think, from a house at Antwerp; fortunately, it fitted its new situation with very little alteration, and it goes to the top of the house. There are a good many specimens of ancient sculpture placed about the garden, many of them authentic "stones of Venice." In front of the house the old well, which still serves, has a "pozzo," or well head, above it. This came from one of the old palaces in Venice; it is in Istrian stone, fmely carved, and it bears the doat of arms of the family to whom it originally belonged; it is of about 1490. Another, also in front of the house, is a more interesting piece. This is the capital of an antique Roman Corinthian column in white marble, which, in the Middle Ages, was hollowed out and made to serve as a well head; it came from a village on the site of the Roman City of Aquileia, near Venice, and it was probably from a portico of one of the temples, or the basilica of the city. One side is well preserved; this evidently went against a wall, but the other side is much defaced and worn, evidently from centuries of abrasion from buckets and pails. Near the vinery will be found an antique Roman marble altar with a fmely cut inscription. This also was brought from Aquileia. The purport of the inscription is to record the dedication of some monument or other, probably a roadside shrine, to the local god Belenus by an "Evocatus," or pensioned legionary soldier, by permission of the authorities of Aquileia. It is interesting to note that this altar, which was obtained by the late Mr. Cavendish Bentinck in Venice, must have been preserved in ...