<p>A modern term used to describe what was in fact a post-Augustan monument marking the site where the bodies of certain members of Augustus’ family were cremated. In 1777, six large travertine slabs bearing inscriptions which refer to different members of the imperial household came to light in the area of Piazza S. Carlo al Corso, near the *Mausoleum of Augustus (<i>CIL</i> VI 888-93). Variously interpreted as orthostat <i>cippi</i> or as paving stones, three of them make use of the phrase HIC CREMATVS EST. For many years these inscriptions laid the basis for the unsupported assumption that this was the site of the funereal καύστρα described by Strabo (5.3.8), in which Augustus’ body was cremated in A.D. 14. This interpretation has now been overturned (Jolivet). Remains of the 2nd c. A.D. excavated at the site in 1937 are irreconcilable with the presence of the circular structure described by Strabo, and the location is too far N to match his description of it as ἐν μέσῳ δὲ τῷ πεδίῳ, ‘in the middle of the plain’.</p> <p>While this was not the site of Augustus’ cremation, its proximity to the Mausoleum made it a logical place to conduct the cremations of other Julio-Claudians who were interred in the family tomb. Notably, the three inscriptions that mention cremation all belong to children of Germanicus who died during the reign of Augustus (Panciera). These include TI. CAESAR GERMANICI F. and an unnamed [CAES]AR, who died as infants (Suet., <i>Calig.</i> 7.1), as well as C. CAESAR, GERMANICI F., the elder brother of the future emperor Gaius, whose death in childhood was mourned deeply by Augustus and Livia (Suet., <i>Calig.</i> 7.1, 8.2). Thus, although the archaeological remains from this site belong to a post-Augustan monument, we can at least be confident that cremations of persons in the imperial household did take place alongside the *Via Flaminia in the vicinity of the Mausoleum.</p>