Monte Testaccio
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 15, 2025 05:28 PM
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History
An artificial mountain on the banks of the Tiber River at Rome composed of 580,000 cubic meters of broken amphorae.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/375710890
41.8759536238, 12.475516215
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Monte Testaccio (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of Monte Testaccio (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Monte Testaccio (Italian, modern)
- Monte dei cocci (Italian, modern)
- Monte Testaccio part of (analytical) Regio XIII (Aventinus) (unspecified date range)
- Monte Testaccio located at Roma (unspecified date range)
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production center (manufacturing, fishing), archaeological site, hill
- See Further:
- Related:
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Monte Testaccio: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/375710890> [accessed: 16 April 2025]
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