ضريح ماكسنتيوس

ضريح ماكسنتيوس
Mausoleum of Maxentius
	منظر داخلي من الضريح
المكان	Regio IX Circus Flaminius
الإحداثيات	41°51′18.69318″N 12°31′6.67697″E / 41.8551925500°N 12.5185213806°E
النوع	ضريح
التاريخ
الباني	أغسطس
تأسس	28 ق.م.

ضريح ماكسنتيوس كان جزءاً من مجمع كبير على Appian Way في روما وكان يضم قصراً و chariot racing circus، بناها الإمبراطور ماكسنتيوس. The large circular tomb was built by Maxentius في القرن الرابع، probably with himself in mind and as a family tomb. When his young son Valerius Romulus died, he was buried there. بعد ترميم شامل، أعيد افتتاح الضريح للعامة في 2014.

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التاريخ

Maxentius may have decided to build the mausoleum on the Appian Way because, according to Roman custom, all bodies had to be buried outside the city. The complex is very close to several catacombs. The mausoleum is believed to have been a two-story, cylindrical rotunda with a diameter of around 35 metres, but only its semi-underground floor survives. There is a central octagonal pillar with a diameter of more than nine meters and this is circled by a seven-meter-wide, vaulted corridor with open niches for the sarcophagi. ^[1] There is no trace of floor or wall decoration, suggesting that the building was never completed.^[2]

An 18th century home largely obscures the mausoleum from the Appian Way and stands where a columnar porch once framed the tomb's principal entrance.^[3] This was originally a farmhouse and was later converted into a home by the Torlonia family, who owned it until it was taken over by the Fascist government in 1943.