Talk:Via Cornelia
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Route of the Via Cornelia?[edit]
Are these drawings representative of what the "Location" section of the article is saying about current thinking on the actual location of the Via Cornelia?
layout of Vatican hill before the building of St. Peter's basilica http://www.saintpetersbasilica.org/Plans/vatican-area.jpg
overlay of nero's circus and the old and new St. Peter's http://www.saintpetersbasilica.org/Plans/Circus-basilicas-plans.jpg
Both images above from this site: http://www.saintpetersbasilica.org/images.htm
Assuming that this is correct the supposed direction of Via Cornelia and the layout of the grave claimed to be that of St. Peter are at least roughly parallel while the reputed St. Peter's grave lies at an odd angle with respect to the old and new St. Peter's basilicas.
http://www.saintpetersbasilica.org/Necropolis/JW/Fig11-p77.jpg
Above image is from this site: http://www.saintpetersbasilica.org/Necropolis/JW/TheBonesofStPeter-6.htm#fig11
Whether the possible coincidence is of any interest it still might be nice to link to the images showing the current thinking about the location of the Via Cornelia if they are representative of what the article is saying about the location.