Mausoleum of Augustus
The Mausoleum of Augustus (Italian Mausoleum of Augustus ) in the Campus Martius in Rome (now the Campo Marzio district ) is a BC built by Emperor Augustus for himself in 29 tomb, in the later some of its successor, other members of the iulisch -Claudian family and other important Roman personalities were buried.
The mausoleum was clad in Roman travertine from Tivoli cylinder with a diameter of about 89 meters, above which rose a presumably planted with cypress mounds. At five concentric rings of walls around the hill were built; on the top was a metal statue of the emperor. The entrance of the tomb was flanked by bronze plaques, which contained the statement of accounts of the emperor, the Res Gestae Divi Augusti, by stood two obelisks. The statue of the emperor was as lost as the bronze tablets (of the Res Gestae Admittedly there are enough stone copies, as the son of Augustus instructed by the Senate for that care was taken that this report in the kingdom was widespread - one, for example, in the Monumentum Ancyranum remained in Ankara, Turkey received ). The obelisks stand today on the Piazza del Quirinale, as part of the Dioskurenbrunnen front of the Palazzo del Quirinale, the seat of the Italian President, and on the Piazza Esquilino front of Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica. From the Mausoleum itself, only the lower parts of the core and the remains have been preserved of the wall rings.
1926 began excavations at the Mausoleum of Augustus. In connection with the consuming celebrated the two thousandth anniversary of the back stronger gerückten just under Mussolini in the center of the first Roman Emperor from 1936 to 1938, the monument was uncovered. Mussolini is said to have even chosen as his own sepulcher. At present, the enclosure of the entire mausoleum by a museum, similar to the nextdoor Ara Pacis, in the discussion.
The mausoleum is located on the Piazza Augusto Imperatore, west of the upper part of the Via del Corso. Viewing is currently not possible.
List of known personalities buried more
- Marcellus († 23 BC )
- Marcus Agrippa Vipsanius († 12 BC )
- Octavia Minor († 11 BC)
- Drusus ( 9 BC † )
- Publius Varus Quinctilius († 9 AD )
- Lucius Caesar († 2 AD)
- Gaius Caesar († 4 AD)
- Augustus ( † 14 AD)
- Germanicus († 19 AD)
- Drusus the Younger ( † 23 AD )
- Livia Drusilla († AD 29 )
- Agrippina the Elder († AD 33 )
- Tiberius († 37 AD )
- Caligula († 41 AD)
- Claudius ( † 54 AD)
- Britannicus († 55 AD)
- Poppaea († 65 AD)
- Vespasian ( uncertain;? † 79 AD )
- Nerva († 98 AD)
- Julia Domna († 217 AD)