Porticus Pompei
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Elizabeth Robinson
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History
A porticus built in 55 B.C. in connection with the Theater of Pompey. The Curia Pompei, site of Iulius Caesar's assassination in 44 B.C., was likely located within the portico.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/165546433
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- Ambulatio magni (Latin, 330 BC - 30 BC)
- Portico di Pompeo (Italian, modern)
- Portico of Pompey (English, modern)
- Porticus Pompeiana (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- porticus Pompei (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Porticus Pompei located on Campus Martius (330 BC - AD 300)
- Porticus Pompei bounds Largo di Torre Argentina (unspecified date range)
- Porticus Pompei located at Roma (unspecified date range)
- Porticus Pompei part of (physical/topographic) Theatrum Pompei (unspecified date range)
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The porticus itself is no longer extant. Its location can be pinpointed with accuracy, lying between the remains of the Theater of Pompey and the Area Sacra of Largo Argentina. The porticus is represented on several fragments of the Severan marble plan of the city of Rome.
Jeffrey Becker, and Elizabeth Robinson, 'Porticus Pompei: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/165546433> [accessed: 07 June 2023]
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