IN THE PALATINE AREA
FURTHER DISCOVERIES. (By Telegraph. -PrfiM AMoclattoa.— Copyrlelit.) ROME,. Sth January. Details of Commander Giacomo Boni's discovery show that he sank a shaft on the summit, of the Palatine areas, and discovered the mundus sacred to Dis and Proserpine. It was covered by lapis wnnalis and square tough slab of tufa pierced b\ two round holes. There was a vaiilteu granary and a recess below th" granary. The tnnndus was the innermost shrine of the holiest centre of aticipn*, religion. LCoiminuder Boni is Director of the excavations in the lloinai- Forum and on tin* t'alntnic A iV»\ (i.iyt, since a, cable nu'. ..jgi told i 1 tint he had discovered in iht? cent to «l the Palatine ii i cm a mundn*. , that marked the si'at of RontiMii.s'rt city. Thti P.iUfitie is on£ of lUmn'-. (Wen nil!?. Dis, or Phito, in liiytholony was of tile lower woild, ami Prose « pint' was his. wife, and therefore queen ot the infernal regions. The nutndus (which means literally '' the world ") i« the cavity into which the pious Woman* burled the sacred, relies without which -no .city- was gvey-foundedi) ,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1914, Page 5
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188IN THE PALATINE AREA Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1914, Page 5
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