Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, MAPPA AUREA

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mentioned in Not. in Region XIII, and on a slave's collar (CIL xv. 7182: ad mappa(m) aurea(m) in Abentino). Whether this was a vicus or a building is uncertain. The name suggests the mappa with which the praetor ¹ gave the signal for the beginning of the games in the circus, and this street or building was probably near or overlooking the carceres of the circus Maximus (HJ 170; BC 1887, 290-295; Mitt. 1889, 260; 1892, 295; NS 1881, 138; Merlin 321).

1 Or rather the presiding magistrate (supra. Iig).

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

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