Monte Testaccio
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 04, 2019 04:23 PM
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History
An artificial mountain on the banks of the Tiber river at Rome composed of 580,000 cubic meters of broken amphorae.
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41.875952, 12.475694
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Monte Testaccio (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Monte Testaccio (Italian, modern)
- Monte dei cocci (Italian, modern)
- Monte Testaccio located at Roma (unspecified date range)
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production center (manufacturing, fishing)
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Monte Testaccio: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <http://3.22.44.247/places/375710890> [accessed: 05 July 2025]
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