Pons Aelius
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jun 05, 2025 05:27 PM
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History
The Pons Aelius or Aelian Bridge (now Ponte Sant'Angelo) was completed by Hadrian in AD 134 to span the Tiber opposite the new mausoleum of the emperor.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/334776903
41.9018943389, 12.4664399121
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Ponte Sant'Angelo (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Pons Aelius (Latin, unspecified date range)
- Ponte Sant'Angelo (Italian, unspecified date range)
- Pons Aelius located at Roma (30 BC - AD 300)
- Pons Aelius located on Tiberis (river) (30 BC - AD 300)
- Mausoleum Hadriani located at Pons Aelius (unspecified date range)
bridge
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 43 B2
The Pons Aelius is one of 9 Tiber River bridges included on map 43 of the Barrington Atlas.These bridges are not necessarily specified by name, given the scale of the map, but the compilers have used Richardson's 1992 listing as their guide.
L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli, Jeffrey Becker, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Pons Aelius: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/334776903> [accessed: 19 June 2025]
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