Lucentum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: P.O. Spann
Creators: P.O. Spann
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Javier Martínez Jiménez
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 06, 2019 11:51 AM
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History
Lucentum was a Phoenician and then Roman settlement in Tarraconensis that was largely abandoned after the third century.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/265954
38.3646181732, -0.438803462827
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Ciudad Ibero Romana de Lucentum (330 BC - AD 300)
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- Less than certain: Ἄκρα Λευκὴ (Akra Leuke: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Less than certain: Castrum Album (330 BC - AD 640)
- Lucentum (Latin, 330 BC - AD 640)
- None
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 27 E3 Lucentum
The settlement includes archaeological evidence of a temple as well as public spaces (forum and curia) in addition to necropoleis that continued in use into the seventh century. The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: in or near Alicante.
P.O. Spann, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Javier Martínez Jiménez, 'Lucentum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/265954> [accessed: 28 May 2023]
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