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The Concordii’s monument |
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Localisation |
Public gardens |
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Description |
It was discovered by chance in 1929 on the road between Brescello and Boretto. The Concordii’s funerary monument (half of I cent. A.D.), belonging to a family of freedmen devoted to wool trades, is one of the most significant in Northern Italy for its dimensions, monumental typology and sculpture inventory. It is an enclosure with a monumental front made of botticino marble, surrounded by a balustrade; at the centre of the balustrade lies a large stele, on a basement decorated with the symbols of the four seasons. Two side cippi represent the eastern divinity Attis wearing a Phrygian cap and keeping an upside-down torch. The stele keeps the portrait of the dead, as well as an inscription that recalls the memory of Caius Concordius Primus and Caius Concordius Rhenus, both invested with important public offices in Brescello (they were seviri and Augustales, i.e. entrusted with the emperor’s cult), together with that of the members of the same family. |
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Tract of the via Emilia |
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Localisation |
Between the via Emilia San Pietro and via Roma |
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Description |
A long tract of the Roman age via Aemilia and of the stratigraphy connected to it (which is still visible between the via Emilia San Pietro - decumanus maximus - and via Roma - cardo maximus) has been recently explored by archaeological excavations. |
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