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Monte Testaccio

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Tom Elliott

Last modified Jan 30, 2024 02:34 PM — History

tags: tituli picti, extant remains, amphorae

An artificial mountain on the banks of the Tiber river at Rome composed of 580,000 cubic meters of broken amphorae.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/375710890

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.8759536238, 12.475516215

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Monte Testaccio (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Imagery location of Monte Testaccio (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Monte Testaccio (Italian, modern)
- Monte dei cocci (Italian, modern)

Monte Testaccio makes connections with:

Monte Testaccio located at Roma (unspecified date range)

Monte Testaccio receives connections from:

None

Place type:
production center (manufacturing, fishing), archaeological site, hill

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Monte Testaccio: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/375710890> [accessed: 24 April 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/375710890 |title=Places: 375710890 (Monte Testaccio) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=April 24, 2024 12:11 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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