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The Tower of the Scipios

Tarragone

The Tower of the Scipios

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The Tower of the Scipios

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Location: Tarragone, Tarragones, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

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Pau Arbat

November 4, 2022

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Funerary monument built during the first half of the 1st century AD. C. by the Romans, next to the Via Augusta. The monolith, in the form of a tower, is located approximately 6 km from the ancient Roman city of Tarraco.

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May 28, 2020

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Tower from the time of the Romans next to the n-340

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The Tower of the Scipios is a tower-shaped funerary monument built in the first half of the 1st century AD next to the Via Augusta, about 6 km northeast of Tarraco, on the N-340 road. the west-north / west of the city of Tarragona. It consists of three superimposed bodies and on the façade of the intermediate one there are two figures of Atis - an oriental funerary deity - holding an inscription.

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