COLLECTION NAME:
Splendore Dell' Antica Roma
Record
Title:
Leaf 26 - Columna Miliaria in Foro Romano
Creator:
Lauro, Giacomo
Description:
The Columna Miliaria was built by Augustus in around 20 BC and was called the Milliareum Aureum or Golden milestone. It bore a bronze tablet with various destinations and the distances over Roman roads from the city of Rome. This column, considered a point of convergence of the great roads, probably stood between the Rostra and the Temple of Saturn, but its foundations have not been found.
Description:
The verso of this leaf has text in three languages with the page title in Italian: Colonna Milliaria.
Subject:
Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities.
Subject:
Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Subject:
Monuments -- Italy -- Rome.
Subject:
Columna Miliaria .
Subject:
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Publisher:
Andrea Fei, Roma, 1625
Date:
1625
Coverage:
Rome (Italy)
Coverage:
Italy
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
28.5 x 21 cm
Format/Medium:
Engravings
Source:
Splendore dell'antica Roma, in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rights:
Though this item is believed to be in the Public Domain, copyright may have been retained by the authors or creators of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
