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28 BC. The Mausoleum of Helena is an ancient building in Rome, Italy, located on the Via Casilina, corresponding to the 3rd mile of the ancient Via Labicana. It was built by the Roman emperor Constantine I between 326 and 330, originally as a tomb for himself, but later assigned to his mother, Helena, who died in 330.
The mausoleum of St. Helena was a domed mausoleum, following other mausolea built by the Constantinian dynasty and the Tetrarchs. It was around 28 meters in diameter on its exterior, with niches placed on its interior walls, it has a tall drum with large windows that supported a dome.
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The Sarcophagus of Helena is the red porphyry coffin in which Saint Helena, the mother of emperor Constantine the Great, was buried (died 329). The coffin, deprived of its contents for centuries, was removed from the Mausoleum of Helena at Tor Pignatarra, just outside the walled city of Rome, and ultimately moved to the Vatican museums in the ...
Sarcophagus St Helena. This monumental red porphyry sarcophagus is believed to have held the remains of Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, who died around 335 A.D. and was buried in the Imperial mausoleum at Tor Pignattara, between the via Prenestina and the via Labicana outside Rome.
The Mausoleum of Helena is a funerary monument from the Roman period.The building with a circular plan, consists of two cylindrical drums stacked. The Mausoleum of Helena is a Roman funerary monument located in Rome, along the Via Casilina, corresponding to the 3rd mile of the ancient Via Labicana. It was built by Emperor Constantine I between ...
131. The Mausoleum of Helena and the Adjoining Basilica adduaslauros: Construction, Evolution and Reception. Dafne oosten. The monumental rotunda known as the mauso - leum of Helena was built around ad 325 against the façade of a basilica with ambulatory1that had been completed shortly before. The com- plex arose at the borders of the imperial ...
