Priscilla
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 14, 2020 09:28 AM
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History
A Christian catacomb within an ancient quarry on the Via Salaria that was in use from the second until the fourth centuries AD. The Catacomb of Priscilla was likely named for Priscilla, a member of the gens Acilia, and contains the oldest known Marian painting (third century AD).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423016
41.9297262, 12.5087652
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of Catacombe di Priscilla (AD 300 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Catacomb of Priscilla (English, modern)
- Priscilla (30 BC - AD 640)
- Priscilla located at Roma (AD 300 - AD 1453)
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catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 43 C2 Priscilla
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L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Priscilla: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423016> [accessed: 18 April 2024]
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