Meta Sudans


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Note: "The Meta Sudans (Latin: "sweating turning post") was a large monumental conical fountain in ancient Rome.

The Meta Sudans was built some time between 89 and 96 under the Flavian emperors, a few years after the completion of the nearby Colosseum. It was built between the Colosseum and the Temple of Venus and Roma, close to the later Arch of Constantine, at the juncture of four regions of ancient Rome: regions I, III, IV, X (and perhaps II).

A meta was a tall conical object in a Roman circus that stood at either end of the central spina, around which racing chariots would turn. The Meta Sudans had the same shape, and also functioned as a similar kind of turning point, in that it marked the spot where a Roman triumphal procession would turn left from the via Triumphalis along the east side of the Palatine onto the via Sacra and into the Forum Romanum itself." - (en.wikipedia.org 23.09.2020)
Latitude: 41.890083312988
Longitude: 12.490666389465

[Last update: 2022/01/31]