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A picture of one of the walls that surround the 272x232 ft. garden that the "Tomb of Cicero" was placed in. The boundary wall, behind the olive trees, is Roman and built of opus reticulatum topped by some shaped limestone pieces. The framed open doorway is original.
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).
