Fall from Cæcilia Metella
The mausoleum of Cécilia Métella is a tomb which is on the Via Appia.
Of circular form 29,50 meters in diameter and 11 meters height, it is on the road which connected Rome to Naples and was built between 312 and 310 front JC under Appius Claudius Caecus. The tomb was to have a high ground cone 7 meters: for this reason the mausoleum is described as tomb to tumulus .
It had a coating in large apparatus which was in torn off party. At the top of the cylinder a plank with Bucrâne S is who stops on the level of the epitaph. This one indicates the owner of tomb, in fact Cécilia Metella, woman of Licinius Crassus whose father is celebrates it Crassus which will take part in 60 av. J. - C. in the First triumvirate in the sides of Jules César and of Pompée.
One is thus here in the presence of a tomb of a woman who belongs to one of the most important families of Rome. The plank makes it possible to precisely date construction from the tomb, i.e. between 15 and 10 av J. - C..
In 1302, the pope Boniface VIII gives fall it to his family to make a station of strengthened granting controlling it Via Appia. They can then take exorbitant taxes for the passage.
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