A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library (1905) (14593224230)

Identifier: historyofallnati05wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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Fig. 70. — The Igel monument (of the fam-ily of the Seeundini) at Treves. (From aphotograph.)
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AFRICA AXD THE DAM BE LANDS. 167 Claudius, and named in honor of his Mife; on the Moselle, Treves,where, perhaps in the first century, was erected the Porta Nigra(Plate XII.); and on the jVIiddle Rhine, Mayence. The bathsof Wiesbaden, Aquae Mattiacae, were visited by many; and the irondeposits as far as Saalburg were utilized. Villas with their mosaicpavements (Figs. 64-69) were common in these border countries;and the cities and houses were ornamented \\\t\\ sculptures. To thetime of Trajan belongs the famous Igel Column, near Treves (Fig.70). The development of southwestern Germany followed somewhatmore slowly ; yet evenhere Roman civiliza-tion gained ground.In Rhaetia, AugustaVindelicorum (Augs-burg), on the Lech, be-came important as themeeting-point of sev-eral great roads. Un-der Hadrian it becamea municipium. Alongthe Danube, as on theRhine, at the fortifiedstations of Romantroops, towns arose. InNoricum, under Clau-dius and Hadrian, set-tlements were made,attracted by the grea