• According to Philip Schaff,[3] the phrase "all roads lead to Rome" is a reference to the Milliarium Aureum—the specific point to which all roads were said to lead.
  • The Milliarium Aureum is a gilded bronze-covered column, placed in the Roman Forum in the year 20 BC by order of Emperor Augustus.
  • At the northwest end of the Forum Romanum is the base of a monument labeled Milliarium Aureum, but it is probably too large to be it.
  • Milliarium Aureum. ... They lead to the master itinerarium aka Milliarium Aureum. It was a zero milestone in Rome. There is an artifact with the label, probably it is it.
  • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes – SBFL* Stop 0 – PLANNING – The Milliarium Aureum ... I mean Milliarium Aureum – Trips of Discovery is a little boring.
  • The Milliarium Aureum was Ancient Rome’s Golden Milestone. It was a Marble Column shrouded in Gilded Bronze upon which all distances from Rome were...
  • Nor does the circular marble plinth decorated with an anthemion (palmettes entwined with lillies) identified as the Milliarium Aureum necessarily belong to the...
  • There is even some indication that on the Milliarium Aureum the distances were to city gates in the Servian Wall rather than to the Golden Milestone itself!
  • For this purpose, he commissioned the construction of the so-called “golden milestone” (Milliarium Aureum) near the Temple of Saturn in the central part of the...