COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Tomb of Caecilia Metella
Alternate Title:
Tomba di Cecilia Metella
Image View:
View showing Medieval additions to the south
Creator:
unknown (Ancient Roman)
Location:
site: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Location Note:
on the Appian Way
Date:
ca. 50 BCE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman
Style Period:
Late Republican
Work Type 1:
mausoleum
Classification:
architecture
Material:
travertine marble
Technique:
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Measurements:
29.5 m (diameter)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; death or burial; rulers and leaders; funerary
Description:
Caecilia Metella , or Caecilia Metella Cretica (fl. 69 BC) was daughter of the consul Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, who was consul 69 BC, and a daughter-in-law of Crassus. The tomb is of the type having a cylindrical body set on a square base. This cylinder, faced with travertine marble and crowned with a marble frieze in relief with festoons between bucranes, is 11 metres high and 29.5 metres in diameter. In 1302 the Caetani family incorporated the tomb in their castle (Castrum Caetani) which they equipped with battlements. The fortifications, stretching along both sides of the Via Appia, defended the strategic approach to the city. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Three
Identifier:
1A3-R-R-TC-C1
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Tomb of Caecilia Metella
