SUNDAY 
ROMA

Not the only headless statue out there. I kind of wonder if at some point someone just decided to bring things like this to put along the road for people to look at but they weren't originally there.
An arched doorway leading to a sepulchre.
This is the Nymphaeum of the Villa dei Quintili, built by brothers Sextus Quintilius Maximus and Sextus Quintilius Condianus in the 2nd century.
They were a couple of rich brothers. They had their own aqueduct to bring water to the villa. It was the one we saw earlier.
The Tumuli of the Orazi, or as it would be called in English, the Great Big Land Boobs.
I believe these would also be more ruins from the Villa dei Quintili.
The Tumulus of the Curiazi, which can be dated to between the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire.
The ruins of a 2nd century temple sepulchre.
This is just the core of a tall tower. I don't know what significance it has, other than...
...this little epitaph at the base bearing the names of three Jewish freedmen.
A couple more tombs. I really had to eliminate a lot of photos here. Some things look just like other things and I took so many pictures of them. They would have bored you even more than you probably are already.
I'll just let the guide tell you what this is.

A tomb reconstructed by the Rabiri dating from the 1st century C.E, with a copy of the original relief depicting the busts with funerary inscriptions of Usia Prima, priestess of Isis, and of two freedmen of a Rabirius.
Some well-preserved ruins of another temple-shaped sepulchre.
The tomb of Tiberius Claudius Secondus.
Seriously, it's just tombs for days out here.
It would seem that these brick structures were of later construction, but what I think they did was take some of the original stuff and stick them on.
A big round mausoleum.
A relief of a nekkid man. But don't worry, his peepee is missing.
This is the place I had originally intended to rent a bike, but I figured it would have required a walk just to get here so I rented from the place at the beginning of the road near the bus stop. However, I did get lunch here at the Appia Antica Caffe.
While I enjoyed my rigatoni and orange Fanta, this little visitor came by.
The little church of San Nicola is a rare example of the Gothic (Cistercian) style in Rome. Yeah, that's from the guide too.
The tomb of Cecilia Metella, built around 50 B.C.E.
More old marble stuff stuck into walls.
This is the proper entrance to the Catacombs of St. Sebastiano. Maybe the creepy other one is the service entrance.
Inside the small church of Quo Vadis.
Before we go, how about just one more tomb?

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