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Mensa Ponderaria

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Athanasia Varveri

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Valeria Vitale

Last modified Dec 11, 2020 09:21 AM — History

The Mensa ponderaria (VII,7,31) was an official public office adjacent to the forum of Pompeii wherein weights and measures were regulated. This location was in use from the late second century BC.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/321173926

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
40.7493686, 14.4841051

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Mensa Ponderaria (330 BC - AD 300)

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Controllo dei pesi (Italian, modern)
- Mensa delle pubbliche misure (Italian, modern)
- Mensa mensuraria (Latin, modern)
- Mensa ponderaria (Latin, modern)
- VII.7.31 (English, modern)

Mensa Ponderaria makes connections with:

Mensa Ponderaria located at Pompeii (30 BC - AD 300)
Mensa Ponderaria part of (analytical) Regio VII, Pompeii (modern)

Mensa Ponderaria receives connections from:

None

Place type:
architectural complex

References:

Evidence:

CIL X, 793

See Further:

Related:

Wikidata Q27687336: mensa Ponderaria (VII.7.31)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Athanasia Varveri, Jeffrey Becker, and Valeria Vitale, 'Mensa Ponderaria: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/321173926> [accessed: 30 September 2023]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/321173926 |title=Places: 321173926 (Mensa Ponderaria) |author=Varveri, A. |accessdate=September 30, 2023 3:05 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Mensa Ponderaria