Alta Semita
The Alta Semita ("High Path") was a street in ancient Rome that gave its name to one of the 14 regions of Augustan Rome.
The Alta Semita brought traffic into Rome from the salt route (Vicus Iugarius.[2]
It may also be that the street called Alta Semita in the Roman Republic was not the same as the one known in the later Empire.[3]
The regional catalogues name Regio VI as Alta Semita, after the street.[4] The temple of the Flavian family (Templum Gentis Flaviae) was located in Alta Semita, according to the regional catalogue.[5]
References
- ^ Lawrence Richardson, A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), p. 5.
- ^ Richardson, A New Topographical Dictionary, p. 5.
- ^ Kim J. Hartswick, The Gardens of Sallust: A Changing Landscape (University of Texas Press, 2004), p. 150, note 10, citing the arguments of Rodríguez-Almeida.
- ^ Richardson, A New Topographical Dictionary, p. 5.
- ISBN 978-0-292-78956-2.
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