Torre di Mercurio
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Ryan Horne
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 13, 2020 07:01 AM
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History
tags:
tower,
extant remains
A tower associated with Pompeii's fortification wall that is also sometimes designated as "Tower XI".
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/723728396
40.752754255, 14.4828627059
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of so-called "Torre di Mercurio" (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Torre di Mercurio (Italian, modern)
- Tower XI (English, modern)
- Torre di Mercurio part of (analytical) City wall of Pompeii (30 BC - AD 300)
- Torre di Mercurio connection Pompeii (unspecified date range)
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None
wall (of a city), city wall, fort, tower (deprecated)
- See Further:
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- Arachne 2108363: Turm XI der Stadtmauer (sog. Mercurturm) Pompeii, Pompei
- Maiuri, A., 1930. "Studi e ricerche sulla fortificazione di Pompei." Monumenti Antichi 33:113-290.
- Pesando, F. 1990. “La porta presso la Torre di Mercurio e le fasi della fortificazione di Pompei." In Le Insulae 3 e 4 della Regio VI di Pompei. Un’analisi storico-urbanistica. pp. 217-26.
- pompeiiinpictures.com: T11 Pompeii. Tower XI. Torre di Mercurio.
- pompeiisites.org: LE FORTIFICAZIONI
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, and Ryan Horne, 'Torre di Mercurio: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/723728396> [accessed: 22 December 2024]
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