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Excubitorium

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Tom Elliott

Last modified Mar 25, 2026 10:35 AM — History

A barracks of the seventh cohort of the Vigiles, Rome's urban fire brigade, was located in the Transtiberim.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/495489059

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.888769, 12.474452

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Representative Locations:
- Imagery location (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- excubitorium della VII coorte (Italian, unspecified date range)

Excubitorium makes connections with:

Excubitorium part of (analytical) Regio XIV (Transtiberim) (unspecified date range)
Excubitorium located at Roma (unspecified date range)

Excubitorium receives connections from:

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Place type:
barracks

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Excavations carried out in 1865 in the De Romanis gardens in Trastevere exposed the barracks. Pietro Visconti carried out the excavations. In 1966, the archaeological area was consolidated and conserved.

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Excubitorium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/495489059> [accessed: 19 May 2026]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/495489059 |title=Places: 495489059 (Excubitorium) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=May 19, 2026 3:34 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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