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Just found it lost in my cell-phone images file... I like to share with you this particularly fine Aquila is on one side of a forgotten marble cippus placed in the parking area of a supermarket along the via Cassia in Roma, in front of a big plants shop. The front text looks as deleted, on the other side there is a laurel wreath. I guess the most of the people pass by it without any awareness of its meaning and glory.
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Awesome, I can't wait to get to Rome! 
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What is that from?
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Wow! Funny how this wonderful art is found in a supermarket carpark, of all places!
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It is indeed a very impressive image.
An important question, however, is - Can it be dated?
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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...
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Quote:Titus Liuius says that Hannibal camped just here in 211...
Wow! Hannibal camped in the parking area of a supermarket? History never ceases to amaze me.... :wink:
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Quote:TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS:1k6r84pa Wrote:Titus Liuius says that Hannibal camped just here in 211...
Wow! Hannibal camped in the parking area of a supermarket? History never ceases to amaze me.... :wink:
He wasn't daft you know  hock: He had a whole army to feed! :lol:
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No. They rather had heard the supermarket was selling that new amazing invention: the toilet paper.
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:lol:
Well, I will probably not have time to look for it this time when i go, but I will definately be going back for a longer visit later!
I cannae wait!!!  D
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Quote:cannae wait!!!
:lol:
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Niiiice Aquila! Thanks for sharing!
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