Scalae caci
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Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes
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History
A stairway located at the southwest corner of the Palatine Hill in Rome, the Scalae caci led from the hilltop down to the valley of the Circus Maximus. If the amended manuscript of Plutarch's biography of Romulus is to be followed, then the Scalae caci provide a point of orientation for location of the supposed dwelling of Romulus. According to the text of Solinus, the Scalae caci also represent one of the four corners of Roma quadrata.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/606719480
41.8892502861, 12.4848810935
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- Scalae caci communicates with Circus Maximus (unspecified date range)
- Scalae caci located on Palatinus Mons (unspecified date range)
- Scalae caci located at Roma (unspecified date range)
- Tugurium Romuli located at Scalae caci (unspecified date range)
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- See Further:
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- Carettoni 1965
- Cassatella 1991
- Digital Augustan Rome Scalae Caci
- LTUR I, 288 s.v. “Clivus Victoriae (Palatium)”
- LTUR IV, 239-40 s.v. “Scalae Caci”
- Liv. (OCT: PHI) 1.7.5.2, 1.7.7.4
- Platner 1929 (Perseus) SCALAE CACI
- Richardson 1992 344
- Romanelli 1963
- Wikipedia (French) Escalier de Cacus
- Wikipedia (Italian) Scalae Caci
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Jeffrey Becker, R. Scott Smith, and Greta Hawes, 'Scalae caci: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/606719480> [accessed: 13 September 2024]
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