Note 3 — Chapter I · THE KING OF THE WOOD

The site was excavated in 1885 and 1886 by Sir John Savile Lumley, now Lord Savile, who was then English ambassador at Rome. Further excavations were conducted in 1886–1888 by Signor Luigi Boccanera, and again in 1895 by Signor Eliseo Borghi. See Notizie degli Scavi, 1885, pp. 159 sq., 192 sq., 227 sq., 254 sq., 317–321, 344, 428 sq., 478 sq.; id. 1887, pp. 23–25, 120 sq., 195–198; id. 1888, pp. 193 sq., 392 sq.; id. 1889, pp. 20–22; id. 1895, pp. 106–108, 206, 232, 324, 424–438; Bulletino dell’ Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, 1885, pp. 149–157, 225–242; R. Lanciani, in the Athenaeum, October 10, 1885, pp. 477 sq.; R. P. Pullan, in Archaeologia: Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity, l. (1887) pp. 58–65; O. Rossbach, in Verhandlungen der vierzigsten Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmänner in Görlitz (Leipsic, 1890), pp. 147–164; G. H. Wallis, Illustrated Catalogue of Classical Antiquities from the Site of the Temple of Diana, Nemi, Italy (preface dated 1893). The temple measured 30 metres in length by 15.90 in breadth (Notizie degli Scavi, 1885, p. 193). It had columns on either side of the pronaos (Vitruvius, iv. 7. 4). A few votive offerings found on the site in earlier times are described in Graevius’s Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum, xii. col. 752–757, 808. For the inscriptions of Nemi and Aricia see Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, xiv. Nos. 2156–2226, 4180–4210, 4268–4275a; W. Henzen, in Hermes, vi. (1872) pp. 6–13; G. Tomassetti, in Museo Italiano di Antichità Classica, ii. (1888) coll. 481 sqq. Among these inscriptions the many dedications to Diana serve to identify the site beyond a doubt. The evidence of ancient writers is collected by Cluverius, Italia Antiqua, ii. pp. 920–935. See also H. Nissen, Italische Landeskunde, ii. (Berlin, 1902) pp. 588–592; and for the topography, Sir W. Gell, The Topography of Rome and its Vicinity (London, 1834), i. pp. 182–191, ii. pp. 112–117.