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Ancient Town-Planning

CHAPTER VIII
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Fronting the Kardo.
(10) Plot V, frontage 55-1/2 feet, and Plot VI, next to the Ludus (gladiators' school), frontage 75 feet ...] _Orange_ (fig.

21).
The case which deserves the first place stands by itself.

It is the one piece of written evidence (as distinct from structural remains) which has survived from Roman town-planning.

Curiously enough, it was found not in Italy but in a province, and a province which, for all its wealth of Roman buildings, has not yet revealed the smallest structural proof of Roman town-planning.

In April 1904 a scrap of inscribed marble, little more than 18 in.


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