Ostium Volane
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Pearce, R. Peretto, P. Tozzi Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M. Pearce, R. Peretto, P. Tozzi Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 15, 2025 04:14 AM
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History
Ostium Volane refers to one of the mouths of the Po River (ancient Padus) enumerated by Pliny the Elder in book 3 of his Natural History.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/393467
44.9463899, 12.176693
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (unspecified date range)
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- Olane (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- ostium Volane (Ostium Volane: Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- None
- *Hadriani connection Ostium Volane (unspecified date range)
river, drainage
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 40 C3 Ostium Volane
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M. Pearce, R. Peretto, P. Tozzi, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ostium Volane: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/393467> [accessed: 10 December 2025]
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