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Bits of a Doric frieze on the Roman town's star attraction. |
[ 4 pages, nnn photos ] And this is that star attraction: the Mausoleum of L. Munatius Plancus the remarkably well preserved tomb of a man who was himself a master in the art of survival; it is one of the very few burial sites of a famous Roman to be securely identified. |
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[ 1 page, nnn photos ] Not quite coincidentally, the only other important Roman ruin in town is yet another large tomb, that of L. Sempronius Atratinus zzz |
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This site on Gaeta is being co‑authored by Carole Roach, who developed most of the information, and all the photographs are © Carole Roach 1998 or 2001.
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