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built in the year 204. It has three openings, those on the sides being smaller in size, and having internal communications with the central arch. It is ornamented on each face with four columns of the composite order, and a series of bas reliefs, illustrating the Parthian, Arabian, and Adiabenian victories, in honour of which it was erected. The inscription is repeated on each side of the attic, and contains interesting evidence of the truth of the record that the remorse felt by Caracalla, after having murdered his brother, A.D. 212, was such as compelled him to obliterate the name of Geta from every public monument. The fourth line, which originally contained the words, ET P. SEPTIMO.L FIL. GETAE. NOBILISS. CAESARI, has been erased, and the words P. P. OPTIMISQUE. FORTISSIMISQUE. PRINCIPIBUS inserted.