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Splendidissima Colonia Iulia Hispellum

The Porta Venere and a stretch of Roman wall.

	Spello still boasts six Roman gates in various states of repair, from splendid to nearly mythical. Not all of them are online yet, but we're on our way. . . [ 4 pages, 7 images ]
	A guidebook out there gives the amphitheatre of Spello a star, which is a bit puzzling: it's not in the best shape. On the other hand, it's a good place to study Roman masonry — and then there's a mystery connected with it: exactly where did the stone go? [ 2 pages, 15 images ]
	Spello is also a mine of inscriptions, including the famous rescript of Constantine. As usual, I'm starting by the back door as it were: a beautiful funerary altar in the church of S. Maria Maggiore, where photography is strictly forbidden; some intriguing fragments in the church of S. Claudio, this tombstone of an ordinary man who died young with two small children, and a fragment containing just barely enough information to identify it too as a tombstone. [ 4 pages, 5 photos + 3 close-ups ]

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