Via Cassia 735
Second half of the third century AD
It is absolutely not the tomb of Emperor Nero (54/68), but the tomb of one Publius Vibius Marianus, prefect of the third Gallic legion, prosecutor of Sardinia, and of his wife, Regina Maxima
In his erroneous identification, the tomb ended up giving the name to the locality
Nero was buried, according to Suetonius, in the MAUSOLEUM OF THE DOMITII AHENOBARBII, the family of the father of Nero, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
The mausoleum was in the area of Piazza del Popolo, where, in 1099, Pope Paschal II (1099/1118) built the church of S. Maria del Popolo
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