Sepulcrum Gallae Placidiae
a Pleiades
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Creators: Noah Kaye
Creators: Noah Kaye
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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History
Agnellus of Ravena, writing in the ninth century AD, was the first to name the funerary chapel in the San Croce complex in Ravenna, Italy, as the tomb of the empress Galla Placidia. His identification of the chapel as the burial place of the empress is widely contested.
Sepulcrum Gallae Placidiae
Sepulcrum Gallae Placidiae
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- Mediaeval/Byzantine (AD 641-AD 1453) (confident)
- Evidence:
Pleiades