Axia
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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Oct 12, 2025 05:12 PM
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History
Axia was an Etruscan center located to the west of Viterbo.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413048
42.3957687114, 12.0190231229
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Necropoli di Castel d'Asso (550 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- castellum Axia (Axia: Latin, 750 BC - AD 300)
- Ἀξία (Axia: Ancient Greek, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Castel d'Asso (Italian, modern)
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settlement, catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 C4 Axia
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Castel d’Asso
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Axia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413048> [accessed: 10 March 2026]
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