Crypta Balbi

tomb · 30 BC – 640 AD

The Crypta Balbi, mentioned by name only in the Regionary Catalogues, most likely refers to a vaulted passageway built in the Campus Martius by the proconsul Lucius Cornelius Balbus in 15 BC, who also dedicated a theater there in the same year.

Coordinates

41.89437, 12.47896

Also known as

Museo Nazionale Romano - Crypta Balbi (ita), Museo Nazionale Romano della Crypta Balbi (ita)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• OpenHistoricalMap · CC0 1.0
  © OpenHistoricalMap contributors
• iDAI.gazetteer (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) · CC BY
  iDAI.gazetteer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (CC BY)

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