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2 unusual facts about Milliarium Aureum


Milliarium Aureum

The Miliarium Aureum seems to have been a marble column sheathed in gilded bronze: according to C. Hülsen, in 1835 a huge marble cylinder was found near the Temple of Saturn and it still had bronze hooks.

Augustus, as curator viarum, erected this monument in 20 BC.



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