Tomb Garden of C. Nonius Minyas

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Location

Via Ardeatina Pleiades: 587835546

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Via Ardeatina

Sublocation Description

The Via Ardeatina connected Rome and Ardea.

Garden

Tomb Garden of C. Nonius Minyas

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An epitaph the late first or second century found near the intersection of the Via Ardeatina and the ancient road corresponding to the modern Via delle Sette Chiese identifies an estate or farm of Merops or Merope (horti or fundus Meropianus), perhaps the imperial freedman Ti. Claudius Merops, who served as procurator for the regions of Rome some time in the Julio-Claudian era (CIL 6.4018), and near it a large walled funerary garden (280 Roman feet wide and 360 feet deep, about two acres in area) with service building built by C. Nonius Minyas, who provided access to it through the larger entry gate to the fundus Meropianus. Among funerary gardens of known dimensions in Italy, Minyas's ranks in the top quartile (see vol. 1 "Tomb Gardens" fig. 8).

Dates

late first or second century

Bibliography

CIL 6.23090 (pp. 3529, 3917); ILS 8345; J. Bodel, Roman Tomb Gardens, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 225, 236. link
A. Carandini , SHortensia: orti e frutteti intorno a Roma, in Misurare la terra: centuriazione e coloni nel mondo romano. città, agricoltura, commercio: materiali da Roma e suburbia (Rome, 1985) 69; L. Avetta, in S. Panciera, ed., La collezione epigrafica dei Musei Capitolini (Tituli 6) (Rome 1987), 281 (Tav. XLIV, fig. 4), cf. 334 no. 334 worldcat
G.-L. Gregori, Horti sepulchrales e cepotaphia nelle iscrizioni urbane, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma worldcat
G.Tomasetti, Iscrizione della via Ardeatina, Bulletino dell'instituto di Corrispondenza archeologica 8.9 (1875), pp.205-206.worldcat

Places

Tomb Garden of M. Aurel(ius) Alexander

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Location

Via Ardeatina Pleiades: 587835546 >}}

Sublocation

Via Ardeatina

Sublocation Description

The Via Ardeatina connected Rome and Ardea.

Garden

Tomb Garden of M. Aurel(ius) Alexander

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Garden Description

An epitaph of the late second or early third century found in 1715 between the first and second mile of the Via Ardeatina near the church of S. Balbina records that a senior centurion and Roman knight, M. Aurelius Alexander detached from his house (domus, rather than horti, the expanding urban environment having now encompassed this suburban zone) a cepotaphium made for himself and his wife, Aurelia Antiochiana, their freedmen and descendents. A final injunction aiming to prevent alienation of the property by any means idly threatened transgressors with a fine of 100,000 sesterces (!), to be paid in to the sacred treasury.

Dates

late second or early third century

Bibliography

J. Bodel, Roman Tomb Gardens, Cambridge University Press, 2018, p. 236. link
G.-L. Gregori , SHorti sepulchrales e cepotaphia nelle iscrizioni urbane, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma worldcat

Gardens of the Roman Empire

Tomb Garden of C. Nonius Minyas

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Tomb Garden of M. Aurel(ius) Alexander

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