WHERE ROMULUS BUILT.
discoveriesAn-ancienl-rome. , By. Tc!cgraph : fPre;S3 AESociation--Coi)yrielit , ■. a Rome, January-.5:,-. : . Details of Commander .Giacomo Boni's. discovery of of-itho- city .found-, cd by Itomulus show ; . that" lie sanki'a : shaft on tho . suramit.-.'of : tho ■ Palatine, areas (cue of : llome'B.;"Seven'llills"), , ; and discovered the 'intindusV sacred to Dii and Proserpine. ■>, It was covered by lapis manaiis and square:rough, slab.)of tufa pierced by..two.round : .holes: : V :.,.-■ Thero, \vas. ; a'' ; .va\ilted granary -.and'a recess beloivi.the'granary.a-The."lnundusj was tho innermost shrine .of ..the..holiest', coiitrii of: ancient^religion^^J.tg^^ijg;!-
Commander Boni i.sDiroctof-.of.thevex-. ravations in the Romnn I , oriVml,.nnd ; " on the Palatinpit.wA- few, , clnys.'Jeiuee'a ...cabb ,, mes?a<;e toid.-ns in the centre'.of?'Uie'-'PalatineW.nrea "« : miaulus his , .-; city. ■ ■ Tlic-,l'nl)itiiie:i3'oiie;,of;Komo;s wven hi'll'sii : ' Pis, nr.?Pliito/iiOnythilosry;was of ; ; world. , -and iProserpine , was his wife, and. .therefore.-queen" of ■Hie. infernal resion?...-'.'-: The inundus. : '(wliicli" nwms literally "tW world'')..is-the.cavity sivti> which She. • , pious*.l?omans;buripd , ,.tho sacred. relics' without ;, city a was; eref iouudwl. : *' : ■''■' ■" ■■■ ■ ■■' Sft*ftS?K'll
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1951, 7 January 1914, Page 5
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