Saxa Rubra
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 25, 2023 10:47 AM
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History
Saxa Rubra (modern Grottarossa) is the name of a road station on the Via Flaminia nine Roman miles from the center of ancient Rome. It was at Saxa Rubra that Constantine I defeated Maxentius in A.D. 312.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423061
41.975827, 12.478409
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Imagery location of Grottarossa (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Saxa rubra (Saxa Rubra: Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Saxa Rubra located on Via Flaminia (330 BC - AD 640)
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station (road or coastal), settlement-modern
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 43 B2 Saxa Rubra
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Grottarossa
L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Saxa Rubra: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423061> [accessed: 23 April 2024]
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