Regio I (Porta Capena)

region · 6 BC – 500 AD · location approximate

Regio I (Porta Capena), one of the administrative regions of the city of Rome instituted by Augustus in 7 BCE. In addition to the named monuments and buildings, the Regionary Catalogues indicate that this district also included 10 vici (streets), 10 shrines (aediculae), 3,250 blocks of apartment buildings (insulae); 120 houses (domus); 16 grain warehouses (horrea); 86 bath-houses (balinea); 81 or 87 cisterns/fountains (lacos), and 20 bakeries or mills (pistrina). Its administrative apparatus included 48 vicomagistri and two curators (curatores). Its circumference is given as 12,211 paces (pedes).

Coordinates

41.87231, 12.50510

Dating

exact

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

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