Friday, January 10, 2020

CHAIR OF THE DEVIL

SEDIA DEL DIAVOLO
Piazza Elio Callisto - Nomentano

 First half of the second century AD

It was the tomb of one Helium Callistius, a freedman of Hadrian (117/138)

The common name Sedia del Diavolo (Chair of the Devil) with which this tomb is known is because of its shape: with the collapse of the façade it took the unusual shape of a monumental chair of a bishop, and that turned on the popular imagination
In the area a PREHISTORIC SITE was found dating back to more than 200,000 years ago

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