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139 AD (search for this): entry mausoleum-hadriani
, 140) believes that the Mausoleum is represented on the reverses of a number of coins of these emperors, all of which bear the word CONSECRATIO: but it is almost certain that they simply show the funeral pyre (Boll. Ass. Arch. Rom. 1913, 27; JRS 1915, 151, 152). so that it acquired the name of Antoninorum sepulcrum or )*antwninei=on (Hist. Aug. and Cass. Dio cit.). Inscriptions actually recorded (CIL vi. 984-995) are as follows: the dedicatory inscription to Hadrian and Sabina set up in 139 A.D. (the latter was already deified, the former not) by Antoninus Pius, the sepulchral inscriptions of Antoninus Pius and Faustina, and of three of their children ; of Aelius Caesar; of three children of Marcus Aurelius; of Lucius Verus, and of Commodus. That Marcus Aurelius himself was buried here follows from Herodian 4. I. 4 (a)pe/qento-the urn containing the ashes of Septimius Severus--e)n tw=| new=| e)/nqa *ma/rkou te kai\ tw=n pro\ au)tou= basile/wn I(era\ mnh/mata dei/knutai), and it is
537 AD (search for this): entry mausoleum-hadriani
106); but the idea is baseless (Jord. ii. 426 sqq.); and the account of Petrus Mallius, which is often quoted as an independent authority, is probably copied from the Mirabilia itself. A detailed account is, however, given by Procopius (BG i. 22) who says that it was faced with blocks of Parian marble, and that there were statues of men and horses of the same material in the upper part, which rose above the city walls. The statues were, many of them, hurled down upon the besieging Goths in 537 A.D. John of Antioch (Malalas) cited in HJ 665, n. 113, writing in the eighth century, describes a colossal quadriga on the summit of the mausoleum; but Hulsen points out (Boll. Ass. Arch. Rom. iii. 27) that the chapel of S. Angelo de Castro S. Angeli, also called inter nubes-see HCh p. 196, 586-which commemorated the vision of Gregory the Great in 590, during a plague, of the archangel Michael sheathing his sword above the fortress, and was probably founded by Pope Boniface IV (608-615), must
700 AD - 799 AD (search for this): entry mausoleum-hadriani
s Mallius, which is often quoted as an independent authority, is probably copied from the Mirabilia itself. A detailed account is, however, given by Procopius (BG i. 22) who says that it was faced with blocks of Parian marble, and that there were statues of men and horses of the same material in the upper part, which rose above the city walls. The statues were, many of them, hurled down upon the besieging Goths in 537 A.D. John of Antioch (Malalas) cited in HJ 665, n. 113, writing in the eighth century, describes a colossal quadriga on the summit of the mausoleum; but Hulsen points out (Boll. Ass. Arch. Rom. iii. 27) that the chapel of S. Angelo de Castro S. Angeli, also called inter nubes-see HCh p. 196, 586-which commemorated the vision of Gregory the Great in 590, during a plague, of the archangel Michael sheathing his sword above the fortress, and was probably founded by Pope Boniface IV (608-615), must already have been in existence there. Another mediaeval church was that of S.