Lucio Vero
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41.9564709, 12.4551076
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Villa di Lucio Vero (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Villa di Lucio Vero (Italian, modern)
- Lucio Vero connection Via Cassia (unspecified date range)
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- See Further:
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- Arachne 8004745: sog. Villa des Lucius Verus bei Acquatraversa Rom
- BAtlas 43 B2 Lucio Vero
- Calci 1987
- Caserta 2015, 179-191
- De Franceschini 2005 69
- Dunbabin 2015, 192-222
- Marzano 2007 465
- Messineo, G. 2005. "Ville a Tor di Quinto e nelle Tenute di Grottarossa e Acquatraversa." In Roman villas around the Urbs. Interaction with landscape and environment Proceedings of a conference at the Swedish Institute in Rome, edited by B. Santillo Frize
- Roma (via Cassia)
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 43 B2 Lucio Vero
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Lucio Vero, so-called Villa of Lucius Verus
The so-called "Villa of Lucius Verus" is located at Acqua Traversa along the Via Cassia, now within the grounds of the Villa Manzoni park. The first excavations of this luxury villa were undertaken at the direction of Paul V in 1585, with other excavations in 1650 and 1674. Gavin Hamilton excavated at the site in 1796 and a number of objects that ended up in the collections of the Torlonia and the Borghese family originated from this site.
The villa begins as a republican period structure built in opus incertum. The second phase (first century A.D.) included a cistern. Further expansion took place in the second century A.D.
As a number of high quality sculptures of Antonine emperors, including Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius, were found on the site, the villa earned its toponym. As early as 1720 Winckelmann connects the villa with Lucius Verus.
L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Lucio Vero: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/422964> [accessed: 20 April 2024]
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