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Columna Maenia

Column Maenia-01

(source: Richardson, L. jr, A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, 1992, JHU Press pp. 94-95)

Timeline

  • 338 BCE: Column is erected (according to one view)
  • 184 BCE: Column is left from Maenius’ house by Cato during the building of the Basilica Porcia (according to another unlikely view)

Physical Evidence

  • West of the Curia Hostilia, near the northeast end of the Arch of Septimus Severus

Literary Sources

  • Pliny Nat. Hist. 7.212 (on location)
  • Pseudo-Ascon. Div. Caec. 50 (on alternate story)
  • Symmachus Epist. 5.56.3