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    The Meta Romuli (in Latin mēta Rōmulī [ˈmeːta ˈroː.mʊ.ɫ̪iː], transl.: "Pyramid of Romulus"; also named "Piramide vaticana" or "Piramide di Borgo" in Italian)...
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    Conciliazione and the Palazzo Pio. This would place it north of the Meta Romuli. The Terebinthus Neronis was a monumental burial erected in the Roman...
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    that an altar there was Africanus' tomb. The third is the pyramidal Meta Romuli which was ahistorically dubbed the Sepulcrum Scipionis during the Renaissance...
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    Aegyptiaca (2): 127. Retrieved 17 June 2019. "There Once Was In Rome... - the Meta Romuli". roma.andreapollett.com. ""Egyptian" Exterior & "Roman" Interior". omeka...
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    Peter), or to recover materials. This was the fate of the so-called Meta Romuli (the other funerary pyramid existing in Rome in addition to that of Gaius...
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    century BC and survives close to the Porta San Paolo. Another, named Meta Romuli, stood in the Ager Vaticanus (today's Borgo), but was destroyed at the...
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    Osborne, John L. (1986). "Peter's Grain Heap: A medieval view of the 'Meta Romuli." Echos du Monde Antique/Classical Views 30:111–18. Rickman, Geoffrey...
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  • Colossus of Nero Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius Casal Rotondo Meta Romuli Pyramid of Cestius Terebinth of Nero Tomb of Caecilia Metella Tomb of...
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    visited by pilgrims to Rome. Peter's crucifixion is placed between the Meta Romuli (a pyramid near the Vatican, destroyed in the 15th century) and the Terebinthus...
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    Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7661-3941-1. Petacco, Laura (2016). "La Meta Romuli e il Terebinthus Neronis". In Claudio Parisi Presicce; Laura Petacco...
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    The Vision of the Cross (detail) with the Meta Romuli and the Mausoleum of Hadrian in the background...
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    Neronis, which was a round tomb surmounted by a narrow tower, and the Meta Romuli, a pyramid similar to that still standing near Porta San Paolo) that...
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    the round Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, the Castel Sant'Angelo and the Meta Romuli. There are cherubs high up in the sky, and the one without wings on his...
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  • the martyrdom took place, in particular the Pyramid of Cestius and the Meta Romuli, a pyramidal mausoleum still in existence in the 15th century in the...
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    church was bordered by a blind lane ending by a vegetable garden and the Meta Romuli, a pyramid similar to that of Gaius Cestius along the via Ostiensis,...
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    Tiber), the path was blocked by a large Roman funerary monument, the Meta Romuli, considered as the resting place of the mythical first king of the city...
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    the end of the 15th century according to Schedel: Borgo Vecchio is the road between the Castle and Saint Peter left of the pyramid called Meta Romuli...
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    immediately after the Arch of Constantine, the procession would turn left at the Meta Sudans and march along the Via sacra to the Forum Romanum and on to the Capitoline...
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    century Acts of Peter describing the spot of his martyrdom as inter duas metas ("between the two metae or turning-posts", which would have been equidistant...
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    with Apollo. It has been suggested that a marble sculpture known as the meta ('turning-post'), displayed in modern times in the Villa Albani, may originally...
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