Catacomba di San Giovanni
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Contributors:
Jonathan Prag, Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 28, 2016 11:47 AM
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History
Ancient catacombs in the city of Siracusa, built between AD 315 and 360. The main gallery re-purposes parts of an earlier aqueduct.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/560149180
37.0767995, 15.2848558
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of the Catacombe di San Giovanni (30 BC - AD 640)
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- Catacomba di San Giovanni (Italian, modern)
- Catacomba di San Giovanni connection Syracusae/Syrakousai (unspecified date range)
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aqueduct, catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
- See Further:
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- Carini, I. 1890. Le catacombe di S. Giovanni in Siracusa e le memorie del Papa Eusebio. Rome: F. Cuggiani.
- Orsi, P. 1893. Esplorazioni nelle catacombe di S. Giovanni e in quelle di Vigna Cassia. Rome: R. Accad. dei Lincei.
- Sgarlata, M. 2003. S. Giovanni a Siracusa. ( Catacombe di Roma e d'Italia; 8). Vatican City: Pontificia commissione di archeologia sacra.
- Wikipedia (Italian) Catacombe di Siracusa
Pleiades
Valeria Vitale, Jonathan Prag, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Catacomba di San Giovanni: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/560149180> [accessed: 21 September 2023]
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