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The term pōmērium is a classical contraction of the Latin phrase post moerium (lit. ' behind/beyond the wall ').The Roman historian Livy writes in his Ab Urbe Condita that, although the etymology implies a meaning referring to a single side of the wall, the pomerium was originally an area of ground on both sides of city walls.
Pomerium is an American early music choral group founded by Alexander Blachly at the University of Notre Dame in 1972. The group has fostered the careers of early music performers including Julianne Baird , Drew Minter , and the members of Anonymous 4 .
He was born in 1430 in Temesvár, Hungary (now Timișoara, Romania).In 1458 he went to the University of Kraków.In 1463 he was licensed in Theology. Possibly in 1471 he left Kraków as a doctor, then in 1483 he is mentioned in the Franciscan Community Annales of the St. John Monastery in Buda, the Hungarian capital city.
In Rome they marked the limits of the pomerium after the city's walls were expanded further out, the course of aqueducts, and the cursus publicus. Cippi lined up in rows were also often numbered, often featuring the name of the person placing them or the distance to the nearest other cippus.
In a typical Roman city, an umbilicus (umbilicus urbis, "city navel") represented the reference point used by the city planners to map out the city spaces, including the pomerium, a sacred city boundary. The place for an umbilicus was supposedly set by examining the sky.
It is possible that the circuit of the wall marked out what later Romans believed to be the original pomerium (sacred boundary) of the city. [20] The discovery of gates and streets connected to the wall, with the remains of various huts, suggest that Rome had by this time:
The gate is located in the eastern section of the Servian Wall.. Following from the concept of the pomerium, there seems to be an unofficial Roman “tradition” that certain killings were to be done “outside” the city and thus several ancient authors include the Esquiline Gate in their descriptions of such deeds.
Pomerium, Musical Book of Hours. Archiv 289 457 586-2. Contains the five-voice motet Virgo prudentissima, ... This page was last edited on 21 December 2024, ...