The Cestia Pyramid in Rome is a funerary monument dedicated to the member of the "College of the Septemviri", who probably died in 12 before Christ, Caio Cestio Epulone.

The work, which well demonstrates what the fascination exercised by Egypt on the aristocratic classes of Rome after the conquest of 30 before Christ could be, is made of, in the carrying structure, of concrete externally covered by marble slabs. The Cestia Pyramid is approximately 37 metres high, and it is laying on a square base with a side equal to 30 metres; a slab on the oriental side remembers how the work has been realised in less than 330 days in respect to the testamentary dispositions that established in such period the maximum delay for the achievement of the funerary monument and to therefore access to the heredity. The complex, built in an isolated position along the "via Ostiense", is nowadays close to the Door of San Paolo along the path of the Aurelius walls, where it was placed by the Imperator himself between 274 and 277 after Christ.
The Cestia Pyramid, wrongly thought during all the Middle Ages to be the tomb of Remo, brother of the founder of Rome Romolo, was restored by Alessandro VII between 1656 and 1663 after Christ, as it is testified by the inscription on the occidental side. In that occasion, probably, was opened along the same side an entrance to access to the rectangular funerary room; the internal space, large of more or less 6 metres and large 4, is covered by barrel vaults and it is entirely covered by frescoes with feminine figures and ornamental paintings almost completely cancelled by the time.