addition to the standard works by Palomino (1724), Cean Bermudez (i800) and Pacheco (1649) ; C. B. Curtis, Velazquez and Murillo (1883) ; Sir W. Stirling Maxwell, Annals of the Artists of Spain (1891) ; The Life of Velazquez, by Sir Walter Armstrong (1896) ; Velazquez, by R. A. M. Stevenson (5899) ; The Life and Works of Don Diego Velazquez, by Don Jacinto Octavio Picor. (Madrid, 1899) ; Days with Velazquez, by C. Lewis Hind (London, 1906) ; Don A. de Beruete's standard work on the subject, Velazquez (London, 1906) ; Calvert and Hartley, Velazquez (1908) ; Cruzada Villamil, Anales de la vida de Casobras de Diego Silva Velazquez (1886) ; Pedro de Madrazo, Catalogue des tableaux du Muss& du Prado (1913) ; Randall Davies, Velazquez (1914); A. Breal, Velazquez (1919) ; C. Justi, Velazquez and sein Jahrhundert (3rd ed.
vols., Bonn, 1922-23). (J. F. W.; X.)
VELEIA, an ancient town of Aemilia, Italy, situated about 20 TM S. of Placentia, mentioned by Pliny. Its inhabitants were in the census of Vespasian found to be remarkable for their longe vity. Nothing further was known of it until 1747, when some
ploughmen found the famous Tabula alimentaria. This, the largest inscribed bronze tablet of antiquity (4 ft. 6 in. by 9 ft. 6 in.) contains the list of estates in the territories of Veleia, Libarna, Placentia, Parma and Luca, in which Trajan had assigned (before A.D. 102), 72,00o sesterces (1720) and then 1,044,000 sesterces (110,440), on a mortgage bond to forty-six estates, the total value of which was reckoned at over 13,000,000 sesterces 13o,-
000), the interest on which at 5% was to serve for the support of 266 boys and 36 girls, the former receiving 16, the latter 12 ses terces a month. Excavations were begun in 176o, and the forum and basilica, the thermae and the amphitheatre, private houses, etc., with many statues and inscriptions (from 49 B.C. to A.D. 276) were discovered. Most of the objects found are in the museum at Parma. Oil has been extracted in the neighbourhood since 189o.
See G. Antolini, Le Rovine di Veleia (Milan, 1831).