Costa Bellene/Ballene (Capo Don?)
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/157837
43.8347443, 7.86531955
- Representative Locations:
- Capo Don (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Costa Balenae archaeological area (AD 300 - AD 1453) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Costa Balenae (30 BC - AD 640)
- Less than certain: Costa Ballene (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Less than certain: Costa Bellene (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Costa Bellene/Ballene (Capo Don?) connection Alb(i)um Intimilium/Albintimilium (unspecified date range)
- Costa Bellene/Ballene (Capo Don?) connection Lucus Bormani (unspecified date range)
- Costa Bellene/Ballene (Capo Don?) connection Via Julia Augusta (unspecified date range)
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station (road or coastal), catacomb, cemetery, necropolis, church, monastery (deprecated)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 16 E2 Costa Balenae
The Barrington Atlas compiler followed Coradi 1968 in locating this site, attested in both the Antonine Itinerary and the Peutinger map, at modern Lacosta-San Remo in Italy. More recent work and archaeological finds now encourage a tentative association with a site at Capo Don, further east. The Barrington also followed earlier scholarship in correcting the name to Costa Ballenae on the grounds that the forms transmitted to us must have corrupted a name based on the word balena ("whale"); however, newer thinking holds that these witnesses may more accurately transmit a name related to Bellenus, allegedly a pre-Roman Ligurian divinity.
S. Loseby, R. Häussler, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Stefano Costa, and Tom Elliott, 'Costa Bellene/Ballene (Capo Don?): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/157837> [accessed: 10 October 2024]
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