12 Mar 2025

Isola Sacra Index

 

The asphalted piece of the Via Severiana leading to the entrance of the necropolis.

 

INDEX

 

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  • Sources
  • -Jacopo Suggi - La flotta riemersa. Storia dello straordinario ritrovamento delle navi antiche di Pisa (23/07/2024) Finestre sull’Arte

  • notes
  • 1: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106 - 48 BC) - Roman soldier and consul of the Republic.
  • 2: Sailing is necessary; living is not: Plutarchus {Pomp. 50) - Mentioned words of Pompey, which he is said to have spoken when he set sail from Sicily to Rome with a fleet of grain ships in stormy weather.
  • 3: Read also: 'The lost harbour of Pisa' .

 

 

 

 

 

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