Ponte Manlio
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: W.V. Harris Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: W.V. Harris Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
The Roman bridge known as "Ponte Manlio" carried the Via Flaminia across the Bosso torrent, whose main channel is now some hundreds of meters to the south. This is a well-preserved Roman vaulted arch bridge that dates to the second century B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/208942838
43.5509864, 12.6507458
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Ponte Manlio (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ponte Manlio located on Via Flaminia (unspecified date range)
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bridge
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 D1-C4
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: on Via Flaminia (20)
Ashby notes that the modern toponym results from a "fictitious inscription" related to a supposed restoration of the bridge.
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Ponte Manlio: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/208942838> [accessed: 03 October 2024]
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