The Tomb of the Scipios (Latin: sepulcrum Scipionum), also called the hypogaeum Scipionum, was the common tomb of the patrician Scipio family during the...
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clear where Scipio Africanus was buried. There are three main possibilities. The first is the Tomb of the Scipios in Rome. Nothing survives in the literary...
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Baker Tomb of Geta Tomb of the Scipios Mausoleum of Augustus Mausoleum of Hadrian Mausoleum of Helena Mausoleum of Honorius Mausoleum of Maxentius Flaminio...
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Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus (properly Asiagenes; 3rd century BC – after 183 BC) was a general and statesman of the Roman Republic. He was the son of Publius...
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Oklahoma Scipio, Utah (Millard County) Tomb of the Scipios Dream of Scipio (Latin: Somnium Scipionis), a story by Cicero, c. 51 BC The Dream of Scipio (novel)...
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temple to the Tempestates. The temple vowed in 259 was located in Regio I, perhaps near the Tomb of the Scipios, and was connected with the temples of Mars...
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The sarcophagus of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, consul in 298 B.C., is a solid tuff burial coffin, once located in the Tomb of the Scipios. It is...
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Castel Sant'Angelo (redirect from Tomb of Hadrian)
museum. The structure was once the tallest building in Rome. The tomb of the Roman emperor Hadrian, also called Hadrian's mole, was erected on the right...
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The Mausoleum of Augustus (Latin: Mausoleum Augusti; Italian: Mausoleo di Augusto) is a large tomb built by the Roman Emperor Augustus in 28 BC on the...
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R (category Pages using the WikiHiero extension)
distinguish. The descending stroke of the Latin letter ⟨R⟩ has fully developed by the 3rd century BC, as seen in the Tomb of the Scipios sarcophagus inscriptions...
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Caelian Hill (category Seven hills of Rome)
Church of San Giovanni a Porta Latina Oratory of San Giovanni in Oleo Tomb of the Scipios Basilica of San Sisto Vecchio Basilica di Santo Stefano Rotondo...
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Pantheon, Rome (redirect from Temple of all the gods)
later design the tomb of Umberto I in the opposite chapel. Manfredo Manfredi won the competition, and started work in 1885. The tomb consists of a large bronze...
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Hannibal (redirect from Hannibal the Great)
"In the footsteps of the past – the Severans and the Tomb of Hannibal". In Hoffmann-Salz, Julia; Heil, Matthäus; Wienholz, Holger (eds.). The Eastern...
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Colosseum (redirect from The Coliseum of Rome)
Capgrave in his Solace of Pilgrims, in which he remarked: Middle English: collise eke is a meruelous place … þe moost part of it stant at þis day. An...
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Trevi Fountain (redirect from The Trevi Fountain)
wide, it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world. The fountain, at the junction of three roads (tre...
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to the Tempestates, locating it near the Porta Capena. Fragments of his sarcophagus were discovered in the Tomb of the Scipios and are now in the Vatican...
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Monaco e il sepolcro degli Scipioni" [The Portraits of 'Mario' and 'Sulla' in Monaco and the Tomb of the Scipios]. Eutopia Nuova Serie (in Italian). II...
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The seven hills of Rome (Latin: Septem colles/montes Romae, Italian: Sette colli di Roma [ˈsɛtte ˈkɔlli di ˈroːma]) east of the river Tiber form the geographical...
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though the position was quite old by that time. The Sarcophagus of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus was discovered in the Tomb of the Scipios (the only...
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Palatine Hill (redirect from The Palatine Hill)
who was the son of Heracles and Lavinia, the daughter of Evander, and when he died his grandfather raised a tomb to him on the hill and called the place...
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Spanish Steps (category 1725 establishments in the Papal States)
patronage of the Bourbon kings of France, at the top of the steps and the Spanish Embassy to the Holy See in the Palazzo Monaldeschi at the bottom of the steps...
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Old St. Peter's Basilica (redirect from Old Basilica of Saint Peter)
the relics recently amassed". As a result, the raiders destroyed Saint Peter's tomb and pillaged the holy shrine. In response Pope Leo IV built the Leonine...
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Piazza Navona (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
built on the site of the 1st century AD Stadium of Domitian and follows the form of the open space of the stadium in an elongated oval. The ancient Romans...
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Sistine Chapel (redirect from Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter)
celebrated the first mass in the Sistine Chapel for the Feast of the Assumption, during which the chapel was consecrated and dedicated to the Virgin Mary...
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(cloaca) for Murcia's stream, discharging into the Tiber. See Humphrey 1986, p. 67 Etruscan tomb paintings of chariot races offer a possible seating model...
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the top of the ancient Capitoline Hill, between the Roman Forum and the Campus Martius in Rome, Italy. The square includes three main buildings, the Palazzo...
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Others were soon found. The best discovery, that of pagan tombs exactly on the line of St Peter's tomb, was made in the presence of Grimaldi, 9 November...
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Piazza Venezia (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
served as the embassy of the Republic of Venice in Rome. One side of the Piazza is the site of Italy's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Altare della...
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Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery. It was built in the style of the Nubian pyramids as a tomb for Gaius Cestius, a member of the Epulones religious...
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Sistine Chapel ceiling (redirect from Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel)
on the papal tomb, but this had been quietly set aside. Michelangelo was instead commissioned for a cycle of frescoes on the vault and upper walls of the...
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