Tomb of Caecilia Metella
Item
- Title
- Tomb of Caecilia Metella
- Alternative Title
- Tomba di Cecilia Metella
- Mausoleum of Caecilia Metella
- Drafter
- Heliog Chauvet
- City
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Address
- on the Appian Way
- Location
- Italy
- Building Creation Date
- ca. 50 BCE (creation)
- Century
- 1st century BCE
- Description
- restored elevation of façade
- current perspective
- restored section, elevations
- perspectives
- sections
- Caecilia Metella , or Caecilia Metella Cretica (fl. 69 BC) was daughter of the consul Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, who was consul 69 BC, and a daughter-in-law of Crassus. The tomb is of the type having a cylindrical body set on a square base. This cylinder, faced with travertine marble and crowned with a marble frieze in relief with festoons between bucranes, is 11 metres high and 29.5 metres in diameter. In 1302 the Caetani family incorporated the tomb in their castle (Castrum Caetani) which they equipped with battlements. The fortifications, stretching along both sides of the Via Appia, defended the strategic approach to the city.
- Classification
- Architectural Documentation
- Documentation Type
- illustrations
- Style/Period
- Late Republican
- Cultural Context
- Roman
- Subject
- architectural exteriors
- death or burial
- rulers and leaders
- funerary
- Source
- Seure, Georges. Monuments antiques, relevés et restaurés par les architectes pensionnaires de l’Académie de France à Rome
- notices archéologiques par Georges Seure. Paris: C. Massin, 1910, 181.
- Access Rights
- Public Domain
- Item sets
- Architecture Illustrations
“Tomb of Caecilia Metella”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed May 11, 2025, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/18914