Domus Valerii (Velia)
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
The domus of Publius Valerius Publicola (consul in 509 BCE) on the Velian Hill in Rome. The main textual narrative holds that Publicola was forced to raze his own house because it seemed too much like a stronghold. The site of the house is connected to the shrine of Vica Pota. Publicola was granted a site for another domus, the location of which is not precisely clear given conflicting textual accounts. Publicola and other members of his gens were granted the right of burial at the Velian site, according to the sources. Inscriptions of later members of his family - M. Valerius Messala Niger (consul in 69 BCE) and M. Valerius Messala Corvinus (consul in 31 BCE) are known from the site of the Basilica Nova.
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Jeffrey Becker, 'Domus Valerii (Velia): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/708093648> [accessed: 18 May 2026]
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