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Thomas Ashby visited locations along the Via Flaminia—the road stretching north from Rome through the Apennine Mountains to Rimini on the Adriatic coastline—several times during his years in Italy. After crossing the Tiber at the Milvian Bridge, Ashby and his companions travelled northward to Prima Porta on the outskirts of Rome, where the extensive remains of the Villa of Livia overlook the road. 
This photo was taken on one of Ashby’s short cycling trips from Rome in the early 19th century, and it features a tomb known as Centocelle on the Via Flaminia, a few kilometres north of Prima Porta and Livia’s Villa. The tomb still stands alongside the road today; however, the modern road is busier and the tomb is now behind a wire fence, making it more difficult to stop and admire it as Ashby did over a century ago.

Photo by Thomas Ashby: Centocelle tomb on the Via Flaminia near Prima Porta, 1903–1905, Thomas Ashby Collection, TA-X.065