https://cgmr.carleton.edu/files/original/c992c1bbed9c1ea6bc164a801f613a0b.jpg f948bbd952ea6e5fc13daa54353df824 Place A location with a street address or larger region. Examples include building, statue, piazza, fountain, port, neighborhood, paintings, sculptures, frescoes, floors. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 13th-Century Flood Marker Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Francesca Arcidiacono (2016) and Tyler Spaeth (2016) Edited by Tim Abbott (2026) Description An account of the resource Walking along the bank, the Tiber gives the impression of a formidable river. During the flood season the current is swift — carrying branches and other debris down the river— and the water level can rise above the bike paths that are now populated by bicyclists, runners, and pedestrians. For the modern Roman, however, the ominous Tiber is restrained by the massive walls on each bank, the construction of which began in 1876. Medieval residents were not so lucky — vulnerable to the whims of ‘Father Tiber,’ Rome was devastated by a series of floods throughout the medieval period. While Rome no longer has to worry about floods, traces of past devastation remain in the form of flood markers. The earliest surviving flood marker can be found under an archway on the Via dell'Arco dei Banchi, across the river from the Castel Sant'Angelo. A marble slab is embedded in the side of the now heavily-restored archway and records the height of a flood that occurred on November 6, 1277. While the script is stylized, one can clearly make out the words Huc Tiber accessit ("To here the Tiber came") right above the line indicating the flood level. Abstract A summary of the resource. A marble slab is embedded in the side of the now heavily-restored archway and records the height of a flood that occurred on November 6, 1277. While the script is stylized, one can clearly make out the words Huc Tiber accessit ("To here the Tiber came") right above the line indicating the flood level. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context romanfloodmarker_2015 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Aldrete, Gregory S.. Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome. Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Accessed May 30, 2015. ProQuest ebrary. Krautheimer, Richard. Rome : Profile of a City, 312-1308. Princeton, N.J. , Chichester: Princeton University Press, 2000. pp. 64, 237 Squatriti, Paolo. "The Floods of 589 and Climate Change at the Beginning of the Middle Ages: An Italian Microhistory." Speculum 85, no. 04 (2010): 799-826. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 6, 1277 Type The nature or genre of the resource Physical Object Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1200s Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Via del Banco di Santo Spirito, 47, 00186 Roma RM, Italy The Tiber Unsure on details