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The porphyry statue of Diocletian in armour is known from large fragments that existed at the column's foot in the eighteenth century AD. From the size of a 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) fragment representing the thighs of the honorand, the original height of the loricate statue has been calculated at approximately 7 m (23 ft). [1]
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Diocletian's Palace (Croatian: Dioklecijanova palača) is a building in the centre of Split, built for the Emperor Diocletian (a native of Dalmatia) at the turn of the 4th century. On the intersection of two main roads, cardo and decumanus , there is a monumental court Peristyle , from which the only access to Cathedral of St. Domnius is to the ...
The city walls of 2.3 km total length were built in the early 4th century after the Gothic invasions. After the fall of the Moesian Limes , the city declined until at the end of 6th to beginning of the 7th century it was destroyed during invasions of Slavs and Pannonian Avars .
The Aqueduct of Diocletian (Croatian: Dioklecijanov akvadukt) is an ancient Roman aqueduct near Split, Croatia (Latin: Spalatum) constructed during the Roman Empire to supply water to the palace of the emperor Diocletian, who was Augustus 284 to 305 AD, retired to Spalatum, and died there in 311. [1] [2]
Diocletian's mausoleum is now the main part of the Split Cathedral. The Mausoleum of Maxentius outside Rome is the only one of the four in Italy. It lies on the Via Appia, where his villa and circus lie in ruins. Colvin asserts that the army likely buried Constantius in Trier, but there is no material evidence. [134]
On 1 May 305, Diocletian called an assembly of his generals, traditional companion troops, and representatives from distant legions. They met at the same hill, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) out of Nicomedia, where Diocletian had been proclaimed emperor. In front of a statue of Jupiter, his patron deity, Diocletian addressed the crowd.
Saint Matthias of Jerusalem, bishops of Jerusalem, confessor (120) [16] Saint Martina of Rome, a martyr in Rome under Alexander Severus (228) [17]; Saint Savina of Milan (Sabina), born in Milan, she ministered to martyrs in prison and buried their bodies during the persecution of Diocletian (311) [6] [17]