DISCOVERY OF AN OLD ROMAN WAREHOUSE.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5202, 30 September 1885, Page 2

DISCOVERY OF AN OLD ROMAN WAREHOUSE.

A curiously interesting discovery has just been made on the banks of the Tiber, cioae to Monte Testaccio, and the colossal ruins of the great emporium of ancient Rome. Here were situated the wharves and warehouses, where the galleys from all parts of the known world, and from Africa and Asia especially, discharged their cargoes. At this spot some 600 blocks of marble of various kinds and of the rarest descriptions were found 20 years back, just as they had been landed from the quarries of Greece, the Grecian Islands, and Asia Minor, 10 centuries ago, with the quarry uamberp, and the indieiv tions corresponding, it is supposed, with the entries on the "bills of landing," eat on each, and fresh as the day they were carved ; and now ii the process of the building operations for the spread of the city m that direction, two warehouses (buried out of sight from the days when Gothic hordes wrought destruction in .Koine) have been discovered, the one filled " with splendid elephants' tusks, and the oiher with lentils. Very different objects of importance, through as regards the lentils they may have been stored 4bere for export, for we know they were often shipped ai ballast.