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 KXPLORATIONS IN UOJIK. ;>65 of the Porticus Livia3, of which the plan was found in one of the fragments of the Marble Plan of Rome, excavated in 1861), which agrees remarkably with this site, the basis of the double row of columns remaining on several parts of this platform, which is partly made on the rock at the north end, but on a late wall at the south end, opposite to the Colosseum. At the south end there are steps up to it, exactly as represented on the Marble Plan. In making the new street from the railway station to the Quirinal Palace, near the Via Mazzarino and Via dei Serpcnti, the excavators have met with the subterranean chambers of some large building of the first century, with massive walls faced with brick, a mosaic pavement, and a crypto-porticus, or subterranean arcade or corridor, the walls of which are faced with opus rcliculatnm. The name of this great building has not yet been ascertained. In digging the foundations of the great public building for the offices of the Treasuiy near the Porta Pia, they have found a portion of the wall of Servius Tullius, in the horn-work to protect the Porta Collina, on the south side of the road leading to it within the modern Porta Pia. The other portion of the horn-work is in the garden of Sallust (now of Spithoever) on the northern side of the road. Hei-e they have also found a head of Cybelo, of the natural size, in Greek marble ; the head has the corona of towers, but it is slightly damnged. In the course of what is called the restoration {/) of the wall of Kome, the remains of the Porta Salaria have been demolished, and in doing so some interesting tombs have been brought to light. They are chiefly of the first century, and perhaps a little earlier, one resembling the tomb of Bibulus (c. B.C. 20) ; but the most interesting and curious of these are the tombs of two young scholars, who had been successful competitors in the Lustra, or 0[)en competitive examinations of those days, and these two prizemen died soon after their success. One of these occurred in the sixth Lustrum, and the person commemorated obtained the Latin verse prize at the age of thirteen, as we are told in the in- scription, which is all that we have of this tomb. Ilis name was — LVCIV.S VALEinVS rVDENS. The sixth Lustrutu was in the time f»f the Emperor Domitian (a.d. 91).