The arch itself is built of travertine, the wall of blocks of peperino laid alternately with the longer and shorter sides outwards as in the masonry of the tabularium.
The tunnel which still carries off the superfluous water of the lake is cut through solid peperino and occasional masses of still harder basaltic lava.
Near this is the great platform of peperino blocks which are thought to have been used as a burning place (ustrina) for the bodies interred at the sides of the road.
It is built of blocks of peperino and is a solid mass of masonry, except where three archways give passage to the water which descends from the Alban hills and the neighbourhood of Nemi.
The wall behind the columns is built of blocks of peperino of unequal size, and is in a style of masonry inferior to the walls of the Forum of Augustus.
It is a hard species of peperino, of a brownish-grey colour, which when exposed to the air becomes paler than the common peperino of Albano.
Some of the foundations of the bridge, and parts of the peperino and travertine stonework in the smaller arches, are ancient.
This ruined wall consists of three arches composed of large blocks of peperino and travertine skilfully cut and joined without mortar and under-built by another arch, as if in order to enable the wall to bear a great weight.
Under the archways some substructions of large peperino stones and other forms of building have been disclosed.
A considerable part of the side walls of grey peperino blocks anciently faced with marble is still standing.
The masonry along the embankment of the shore on each side, is partly of peperino and partly of tufa and travertine blocks laid along and across alternately.
At the ninth milestone on the road to Palestrina, where the road crosses a small brook, is a magnificent monument of ancient Roman architecture, consisting of an arched viaduct built of peperino and tufa blocks.
The remains consist of tufa substructions, steps leading up to the temple, and some peperino fragments.
The gray peperino sarcophagus was discovered in the tomb of the Scipios on the Via Appia in 1780.
The tomb is built of yellow bricks, with red brick basement, pilasters, and ornaments: on one side is the pediment of the portico, which was formed with peperino columns.
Along the right wall are three panels of peperino stone representing two dogs and a stag in an archaic style.
Close by, in a niche, is the celebrated peperino *Tomb of L.
It is built in the Etruscan style, of huge blocks of tufa or peperino placed long-and cross-ways alternately.
The portions formed of peperino blocks, which are bound with iron clamps, have only been added in connection with subsequent labours of repair.
All that is visible of the ancient work from the outside are the blocks of peperino of the mole which once supported the outer casing.
The subsoil too is differently formed: the surface consists of very absorbent materials, then comes a stratum of less permeable tufa or peperino (sometimes clay is present), and below that again more permeable materials.
Then was brought suddenly to light the celebrated sarcophagus of plain peperino stone, which contained the remains of the Roman consul, Lucius Scipio Barbatus, after having been undisturbed for nearly twenty-two centuries.
The sarcophagi of the Scipios were hollowed out of simple blocks of peperino stone; and the sculptor's art and the material in which he wrought were worthy of the severe simplicity of the heroic age.
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