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So-called Arco di Druso

a Pleiades place resource

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tags: travertine

The popular toponym associated with this monument - Arco di Druso or Arch of Drusus - is a misnomer and is misleading. This is problematic given other textual, epigraphic, and archaeological attestations that mention honorific monuments dedicated to Nero Claudius Drusus. This place is the site of the remains of a triple-bay arch that is now reduced to the central bay. The monument sits astride the Via Appia just inside the Porta S. Sebastiano and has been referred to as "Arco di Druso" since the sixteenth century. The monument is built of travertine and faced with marble. This arch, in fact, supported the Aqua Antoniniana, a branch of the Aqua Marcia. The connection with Drusus is erroneous.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/182591943

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.873783161, 12.5014339661

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Arch of Drusus (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Arco di Druso (Italian, AD 1500 - Present)

So-called Arco di Druso makes connections with:

So-called Arco di Druso part of (physical/topographic) Aqua Antoniniana (unspecified date range)
So-called Arco di Druso located near Porta Appia (unspecified date range)
So-called Arco di Druso located on Via Appia (unspecified date range)

So-called Arco di Druso receives connections from:

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Place type:
arch

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Related:

GeoNames 8015036: Arco di Druso

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

This monument may be the arcus Recordationis of the Einsiedeln Itinerary.

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'So-called Arco di Druso: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/182591943> [accessed: 22 January 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/182591943 |title=Places: 182591943 (So-called Arco di Druso) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=January 22, 2025 4:50 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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So-called Arco di Druso