Leaf 26 - Columna Miliaria in Foro Romano

Lauro, Giacomo

Andrea Fei, Roma, 1625

1625

Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities.

Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc.

Monuments -- Italy -- Rome.

Columna Miliaria .

Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.

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.

The verso of this leaf has text in three languages with the page title in Italian: Colonna Milliaria.

Leaf 26 Recto and Verso.

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Splendore dell'antica Roma, by Giacomo Lauro, in Roma: Nell Stamperia di Andrea Fei, l'anno del Giubileo MDCXXV [1625]

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Page 28.5 x 21 cm.

Image 23.5 x 18 cm.

Engraving on paper

Milliarium Aureum, University of Chicago's Penelope

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