01-26-2008, 03:17 PM
Well, dating it seems difficult AFAIK, even if it does not look older than II-III century a.v.
We know that the present via Cassia was the ancient via Clodia and there passed the a lot of the history of Roma...
Anyway Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus after coming back from his Persian military expedition built his magnificent villa as Iulius capitolinus said in Hist. Aug., Vita Veri, VIII, 8: «…villam praeterea exstruxit in via Clodia famosissimam, in qua per multos dies et ipse ingenti luxuria debacchatus est cum libertis suis et amicis paribus» find it at 41° 57' 24,64" N - 12° 27' 19,57" E at about 1000 mt. from the supermarket carpark where the cippus is ( 41° 57' 12,67" N - 12° 27' 19,57" E ).
So the cippus could be related to it. But some Km to North we also find the tomb of Publius Vibius Marianus, Praefectus of the II-III century Legio III Gallica, moreover, but of course I don't think it so ancient, Titus Liuius says that Hannibal camped just here in 211...
Valete,
We know that the present via Cassia was the ancient via Clodia and there passed the a lot of the history of Roma...
Anyway Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus after coming back from his Persian military expedition built his magnificent villa as Iulius capitolinus said in Hist. Aug., Vita Veri, VIII, 8: «…villam praeterea exstruxit in via Clodia famosissimam, in qua per multos dies et ipse ingenti luxuria debacchatus est cum libertis suis et amicis paribus» find it at 41° 57' 24,64" N - 12° 27' 19,57" E at about 1000 mt. from the supermarket carpark where the cippus is ( 41° 57' 12,67" N - 12° 27' 19,57" E ).
So the cippus could be related to it. But some Km to North we also find the tomb of Publius Vibius Marianus, Praefectus of the II-III century Legio III Gallica, moreover, but of course I don't think it so ancient, Titus Liuius says that Hannibal camped just here in 211...
Valete,
TITVS/Daniele Sabatini
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
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... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
