Mausoleum of Theodoric
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Contributors:
Noah Kaye
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 07, 2016 10:35 AM
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History
A monument built in Ravenna, Italy, ca. AD 520 by Theodoric the Great as his future tomb. After Belisarius reconquered Ravenna in 540, the tomb was converted into the church of Sta. Maria della Rotonda.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/861709371
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- Imagery Location of Mausoleum of Theodoric (AD 300 - Present)
- Tomba di Teodorico (Italian, modern)
- Mausoleum of Theodoric connection Ravenna (unspecified date range)
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church, tomb
Pleiades
Facade and portico rebuilt in the 16th century AD.
The mausoleum and six other sites in Ravenna were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1996.
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, and Noah Kaye, 'Mausoleum of Theodoric: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/861709371> [accessed: 25 April 2018]
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