After the conquest of Egypt in 31 B.C. by Octavian Augustus, following the death of Cleopatra, Roman funerary construction began to be inspired by Egyptian models, giving rise to a real fashion. The structure in concrete covered with slabs of Carrara marble, is 36.40 meters high and has a square base of about 30 meters per side, built in Egyptian style between 18 and 12 B.C. in just 330 days. One of the Roman characters who chose a pyramid as his tomb was Caio Cestio Epulone, praetor, tribune of the plebe and member of the College of the Septemviri Epulones, as one of the inscriptions on the facade shows.
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After the conquest of Egypt in 31 B.C. by Octavian Augustus, following the death of Cleopatra, Roman funerary construction began to be inspired by Egyptian models, giving rise to a real fashion. The structure in concrete covered with slabs of Carrara marble, is 36.40 meters high and has a square base of about 30 meters per side, built in Egyptian style between 18 and 12 B.C. in just 330 days. One of the Roman characters who chose a pyramid as his tomb was Caio Cestio Epulone, praetor, tribune of the plebe and member of the College of the Septemviri Epulones, as one of the inscriptions on the facade shows.
