Capitolinus Mons
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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May 05, 2025 03:17 PM
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History
The smallest of Rome's hills and one of its most important, the Capitoline Hill served as the citadel (arx) of the city and as the site of its poliadic temple.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/347036492
41.8925778, 12.4822154
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Capitolinus Mons (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Capitoline Hill (English, modern)
- Monte Capitolino (Italian, modern)
- mons Capitolinus (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- mons Tarpeius (Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)
- None
- Aedes Tensarum located on Capitolinus Mons (30 BC - AD 300)
- Clivus Capitolinus part of (physical/topographic) Capitolinus Mons (unspecified date range)
- Less than certain: Elephas herbarius located on Capitolinus Mons (unspecified date range)
- Tarpeian Rock part of (physical/topographic) Capitolinus Mons (unspecified date range)
- Temple of Iuno Moneta located on Capitolinus Mons (unspecified date range)
- Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus located on Capitolinus Mons (750 BC - AD 640)
- Temple of Veiovis located on Capitolinus Mons (unspecified date range)
- Tullianum located on Capitolinus Mons (550 BC - AD 300)
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Jeffrey Becker, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, and Tom Elliott, 'Capitolinus Mons: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/347036492> [accessed: 23 June 2025]
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