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Asculum

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: W.V. Harris

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, Gethin Rees, R. Talbert

Last modified Jun 08, 2018 07:03 AM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement

Asculum (modern Ascoli Piceno) was the principal city of the Piceni.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413036

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
42.855397, 13.574951

Locations:

DARMC location 18217 (550 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Ascoli Piceno (Italian, modern)
Asculum (550 BC - AD 640)

Asculum makes connections with:

Asculum connection Picenum (unspecified date range)
Asculum connection Via Salaria (unspecified date range)

Asculum receives connections from:

Roman theater at Asculum at Asculum (unspecified date range)
Porta Solestà connection Asculum (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement

References:

Evidence:

TP 4B3 (Talbert 1177)

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 F3 Asculum

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ascoli

Alternate representations:
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Suggested citation:
W.V. Harris, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, Gethin Rees, and R. Talbert, 'Asculum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413036> [accessed: 20 March 2019]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413036 |title=Places: 413036 (Asculum) |author=Harris, W. |accessdate=March 20, 2019 1:07 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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