DISCOVERY OF A ROMAN VILLA.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 99, 8 April 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

DISCOVERY OF A ROMAN VILLA.

Excava*ions which have l:e.?n carried qn by Professor Gnir at Pola have led to tho discovery of a fine specimen of a Roman villa similar in style to those of Hie Pompeii. The walls of the neristvlo are in part still standing 'to a height, of over 10 feet and are decorated wirli paintings in the so-called architcetuarl s yle. Tn the middle of •m ornamental mosaic floor is a medallion portraying two peacocks on the edgo «if a fountain basin: another mosaic floor reprcsen’S a dog chasing c hare.

This is the finest specimen of domestic Roman arch? er-tiire so fa*- advanced at Pola. but this Tstrian city, now tho Austrian Portsmouth, has always lieen

well known to archaeologists by reason of its tine amphitheatre and the complete. though small Roman temple which stands in tho middle of the town.

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