Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, SACRA URBS, TEMPLUM , SEP. AGRIPPAE , SEP. DOMITIORUM

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SEP. DOMITIORUM

or monumentum Domitiorum (Suet. Nero 50):

the tomb of the family of the Domitii on the Pincian, where the ashes of Nero were placed, in a sarcophagus of porphyry with an altar of Luna marble standing above it, all enclosed by a balustrade of Thasian marble (loc. cit.). This tomb stood on the north-west slope of the hill, probably in horti belonging to the Domitii, but in the Middle Ages it was thought to be at the foot of the hill. To exorcise the evil spirit of Nero, Paschal II (1099) built here a small chapel which became in the thirteenth century the church of S. Maria del Popolo (HJ 446; Arm. 319; BC 1877, 194; 1914, 376-377).¹

1 See also Town Planning Review, xi. (1924), 79, 8o. The history of the foundation of S. Maria del Popolo is quite uncertain (HCh 358).

A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Samuel Ball Platner. Thomas Ashby. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 1929.

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