DRAFT

Tomb Garden of Terentia

Author: John Bodel

Contributor: Yuyao Liu

Permalink: https://roman-gardens.github.io/test-drafts/id/ba3b853a83/

Published: 2021-04-21

Modified: 2025-06-29

Location

Via Aurelia Pleiades: 174900201

Sublocation

Via Aurelia

Sublocation Description

An ancient Roman road begun ca. 241 B.C. by the censor C. Aurelius Cotta.

Garden

Tomb Garden of Terentia

Keywords

epitaphs AAT:300028729
tombs AAT:300005926

Garden Description

A fragmentary (and probably reused) epitaph, probably of the first or second century CE, found in the catacombs of Calepodio beside the Via Aurelia identifies a cepota[phium] of Terentia.

Bibliography

J. Bodel, Roman Tomb Gardens, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 225, 237. link
G.-L. Gregori, Horti sepulchrales e cepotaphia nelle iscrizioni urbane, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma worldcat

Places

Explore the places containing this garden:

Via Aurelia
Tomb Garden Near Rome
Italia