Eumachia Building
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Athanasia Varveri, Valeria Vitale
Creators: Athanasia Varveri, Valeria Vitale
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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opus latericium
Located on the east side of Pompeii's forum (VII, 9, 1), the so-called Eumachia building is a large, public building financed by Eumachia, a public priestess of Venus in Pompeii during the middle of the first century AD.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/300044064
40.7494187312, 14.4855914283
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of so-called "Edificio di Eumachia" (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Calcidico di Eumachia (Italian, modern)
- Casa di Eumacchia (Italian, modern)
- Dorsa pompejana (Italian, modern)
- Edifizio della sacerdotessa Eumachia (Italian, modern)
- Edifizio di Eumachia (Italian, modern)
- Fullonica Eumachiana (Italian, modern)
- Mercato delle stoffe (Italian, modern)
- Monumento di Eumachia (Italian, modern)
- Porticus of the Concordia Augusta (English, modern)
- The Exchange of Eumachia (English, modern)
- VII.9.1 (English, modern)
- Eumachia Building located east of Forum of Pompeii (unspecified date range)
- Eumachia Building connection Pompeii (unspecified date range)
- Eumachia Building part of (analytical) Regio VII, Pompeii (modern)
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Pleiades
Eumachia, a public priestess of Venus, sponsored the construction of this large structure adjoining the east side of Pompeii's forum during the reign of Tiberius. Its function remains debated.
Athanasia Varveri, Valeria Vitale, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Eumachia Building: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/300044064> [accessed: 26 April 2024]
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