Amiternum
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
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 04, 2024 10:37 PM
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History
Amiternum was an ancient settlement of the Sabines that Rome captured in 293 BC. The settlement was situated at the intersection of four Roman roads: the Via Caecilia, the Via Claudia Nova, and the two branches of the Via Salaria. The historian Sallust was born at Amiternum in 86 B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413013
42.4004668176, 13.3062214469
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of Amiternum (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Amiternum connection Via Claudia Nova (unspecified date range)
- Amiternum connection Via Salaria (unspecified date range)
- Cattedrale di Santa Maria di Amiternum located at Amiternum (unspecified date range)
- Roman amphitheater at Amiternum located at Amiternum (unspecified date range)
- Roman theater at Amiternum located at Amiternum (unspecified date range)
- Less than certain: Testruna located near Amiternum (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed aqueduct near Amiternum located near Amiternum (unspecified date range)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 42 E4 Amiternum
- Buonocore 1994
- FastiOnline (Excavation) 2868
- Heinzelmann 2010
- Heinzelmann 2012
- New Pauly Amiternum
- PECS (Perseus) AMITERNUM (San Vittorino) Latium, Italy
- Segenni 1985
- Smith 1854 (Perseus) AMITERNUM
- ToposText Amiternum (Italy)
- Wikipedia (English) Amiternum
- www.archeoabruzzo.beniculturali.it: Amiternum
- See Also:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 E4 Amiternum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: S. Vittorino
This site is not to be confused with the similarly named Amiternum located in Samnium.
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Amiternum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413013> [accessed: 03 December 2024]
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