S. Petrus
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).
Last modified
Oct 12, 2024 07:27 PM
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History
The Basilica of St. Peter in Vatican City is currently a Renaissance edifice standing on the site of Old St. Peter's Basilica, a church built by Constantine I between AD 319 and 333. The holy site is located on the Mons Vaticanus in connection with the purported site of the burial of the Christian Saint Peter.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423053
41.9023045636, 12.453571257
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Saint Peter's Basilica (AD 1500 - Present) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 18091 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano (Italian, modern)
- S. Petrus (30 BC - AD 640)
- Saint Peter's Basilica (English, modern)
- San Pietro del Vaticano (Italian, modern)
- S. Petrus connection Roma (unspecified date range)
- S. Petrus succeeds Vatican necropolis (unspecified date range)
- S. Petrus located on Vaticanus Mons (unspecified date range)
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church
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 43 B2 S. Petrus
- Boorsch 1983
- Gardner 2005 499-500, 571-575
- Krautheimer 1937-1977 V, 165-279
- Liverani 1999
- WHL 91: Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura
- Wikipedia (English) Old St. Peter's Basilica
- Wikipedia (English) St. Peter's Basilica
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 43 B2 S. Petrus
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: VAT
L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Sebastian Heath, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'S. Petrus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423053> [accessed: 25 April 2025]
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