Crypta Balbi
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Apr 04, 2024 08:27 AM
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History
The Crypta Balbi, mentioned by name only in the Regionary Catalogues, most likely refers to a vaulted passageway built in the Campus Martius by the proconsul Lucius Cornelius Balbus in 15 BC, who also dedicated a theater there in the same year.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/756231346
41.8943747494, 12.4789555805
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Crypta Balbi (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Crypta Balbi (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Crypta Balbi part of (physical/topographic) Campus Martius (unspecified date range)
- Crypta Balbi part of (analytical) Regio IX (Circus Flaminius) (unspecified date range)
- Crypta Balbi located at Roma (unspecified date range)
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tomb, theatre, theater
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Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Crypta Balbi: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/756231346> [accessed: 14 May 2024]
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