Septizonium
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
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nymphaeum
The Septizonium (or Septizodium) is a monument located at the extreme at the extreme southeastern corner of the Palatine hill built by the Severan emperors. It is attested textually in the Historia Augusta, its footprint appears on the Severan marble plan (Forma Urbis Romae), and its foundations have been explored via excvavation.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/705506085
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- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Septizodio (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Septizonium (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Septizonium part of (analytical) Regio X (Palatium) (unspecified date range)
- Septizonium located at Roma (AD 200 - AD 299)
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monument
Pleiades
The Septizonium was a five-story monument, incorporating exdrae, that was inspired by theatral architecture. It may have served as a monumental fountain or nymphaeum. Its topographical placement at the intersection of the Via Triumphalis and the Via Appia may have been part of a Severan re-focusing of Rome's topography.
Jeffrey Becker, 'Septizonium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/705506085> [accessed: 22 January 2025]
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