Mausoleum of Lucilio Peto

The Mausoleum of Lucilio Peto (dated to the late first century) was discovered in 1887, about 6 meters below the present ground level, during the work on the positioning of the former Vigna Bertone.

The tomb is circular in plan, formed by a drum (about 34 meters in diameter for a height of 16 meters) with the centre made of concrete covered by a facing of travertine marble blocks between two simple indented frames.

At the center of the main facade, an inscription engraved on a marble slab attributes the mausoleum to a wealthy member of Gens Lucilia: Lucilio Peto, of the Scaptia tribe, a military tribune, prefect of the blacksmiths and cavalry, who built the tomb for himself and his sister Lucilia Polla while he was still alive.

The interior of the mausoleum can be accessed from a back entrance. A corridor leads to the burial chamber: this has a cruciform plan with three niches into which were placed the same number of funerary beds.

The mausoleum was later abandoned and in the Trajan Period, it was almost completely buried.