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September 6, 2005 Carinoza

Pyramid of Caius Cestius

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With Sr. Olivia - Mother Superior of the RVM sisters in Rome - at the Via Ostiense.

Behind us is the Pyramid of Caius Cestius set into the Aurelian Wall near Porta San Paolo.
It is built of brick and faced with white marble; according to an inscription, it took just 330 days to build in 12 BC.
Caius was a wealthy but unimportant 1st-century praetor, or senior magistrate. At this time there
was a craze for all things Egyptian, so he commissioned himself a pyramid as a tomb.

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