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A view looking southeast at the whole of the monumental "Tomb of Cicero." It is 78 ft. high and consists of a base of squared blocks that rests on a crepidoma of two steps. A truncated, hollow, conical cone, that is missing its outer casing, surmounts the base. There may have been a statue on the top of the cone honoring the man that was buried there.
This funeral building is located 1.5 mi. northwest of the Italian city of Formia on the via Appia—about 40 mi. northwest of Puzzuoli/Naples. It is dated to the second half of the first century B.C. It is said to be the funeral monument erected in memory of the orator Cicero (106-43 B.C.). Since it is on the via Appia, Paul would have passed by it on his way from Puteoli to Rome (Acts 28:11–16).
