Asisium
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: W.V. Harris
Creators: W.V. Harris
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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Oct 02, 2023 07:42 AM
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History
A Roman settlement built atop an earlier Umbrian one on a western foothill of the Apennines, Asisium received municipal status and was assigned to the Tribus Sergia. Totila destroyed most of the city in A.D. 545.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413037
43.0706185, 12.618957
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 18218 (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARE Location (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- Asisium part of (regional) Umbria (region) (unspecified date range)
- Asisium part of (administrative) tribus Sergia (30 BC - AD 300)
- Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi located at Asisium (unspecified date range)
- Casa di Properzio located at Asisium (30 BC - AD 300)
- Domus of the Lararium located at Asisium (30 BC - AD 300)
- Roman amphitheater of Asisium located at Asisium (unspecified date range)
- Santa Maria Sopra Minerva located at Asisium (unspecified date range)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 42 D2 Asisium
- Fontaine 1990 317-67
- Les 'Bourgeoisies' municipales italiennes aux IIe et Ier siècles av. J.-C: Centre Jean Bérard, Institut français de Naples, 7-10 décembre 1981 152
- New Pauly Asisium
- PECS (Perseus) ASISIUM (Assisi) Umbria, Italy
- Ptol (Müller: Hathi Trust) 3.1.53
- Smith 1854 (Perseus) ASÍSIUM
- ToposText Asisium (Umbria)
- TrecEnc s.v. "ASSISI." In Enciclopedia dell' Arte Antica (Strazzulla, M. J.)
- Wikipedia (English) Assisi
- See Also:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 D2 Asisium
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Assisi
Asisium is famous as the birthplace of St. Francis as well as the Roman poet Propertius.
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Asisium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413037> [accessed: 25 April 2024]
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