Tomb of Caecilia Metella
The tomb of Caecilia Metella (Italian: Tomba di Cecilia Metella) is an imposing grave monument on the Via Appia Antica in Rome .
In the 1st half of the 1st century BC It became for Caecilia Metella Cretica , daughter of the Roman consul from 69 BC. BC, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus , and daughter-in-law of the triumvir Crassus built by her husband Marcus Licinius Crassus . It is a travertine-clad rotunda built on an eight-meter-high base with a diameter of about 20 meters and a height of 11 meters, with a bucranion frieze that was actually supposed to form the basis for a conical tumulus filled with earth .
Caecilia Metella's tomb was converted into a castle by the noble Caetani family in the Middle Ages . The preserved battlements that were added at that time still testify to this today .
The grave and the attached castle can be visited.
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein depicted this tomb in the background of his picture Goethe in the Campagna .
literature
- Henrik Gerding: The Tomb of Caecilia Metella. Tumulus, Tropaeum and Thymele. Lund 2002, ISBN 9-1628-5342-2 .
- Rita Paris (Ed.): Via Appia. The Tomb of Cecilia Metella and the Castrum Caetani. , Electra, Milano 2000, ISBN 8-8435-7595-3 .
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Coordinates: 41 ° 51 ′ 8 ″ N , 12 ° 31 ′ 15 ″ E