Sepolcro di Largo Talamo
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Discovered in 1935 in viale S. Lorenzo-via dei Sardi, on the route of the ancient Via Collatina, the funerary monument was later reconstructed at Largo E. Talamo.
The building, originally formed by a cylindrical drum on a parallelepiped base, is completely covered with travertine. Other funerary monuments had been placed next to the monument and other buildings had been constructed above it, added at a later date, probably due to the raising of the ground.
Of the drum, a fragment of the base frame and a slab of the frieze decorated with acanthus spirals have been preserved.
The base, 2.70 metres high, is square, measuring 5.90 metres per side. Along the front there was a seat with ornamental relief elements that functioned as a lion's paw support, while at both ends of the first row of travertine blocks the dimensions of the monument are engraved: IN FR(ONTE) P(EDES) XXXII, IN AGR(O) P(EDES) XX.
The inner wall of the cell was of opus reticulatum covered with plaster with floral and geometric decorations. In the middle of the floor was a circular well for collecting water, covered by a travertine slab. In the covering masonry were recovered some laterite stamps of the age of Commodus (180-193), another of the years 198-212 and a third of the years 205-212: The tomb, of the circular drum type on a quadrangular base, is chronologically placed in the first half of the 1st century AD with use until the 3rd century AD.