Ferentium
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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Jun 28, 2026 10:16 AM
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History
Ferentium (modern Ferento) was a city of Etruria first mentioned in the Liber Coloniarum ca. 123 BC that became a Roman municipium after the Social War. Substantial remains of the city remain; the site was the birthplace of Otho and is noted for its fine stone monuments and statues.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413132
42.4886766719, 12.1312852549
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Ferento (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ferentium (Latin, 330 BC - AD 640)
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- Ferentinates (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Ferentium succeeds Acquarossa (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Ferentium part of (administrative) tribus Stellatina (unspecified date range)
- Roman theater at Ferentium located at Ferentium (unspecified date range)
- Terme Romane, Ferento located at Ferentium (unspecified date range)
settlement, archaeological site
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 42 C4 Ferentium
- New Pauly Ferentis, Ferentium (G. Uggeri)
- PECS (Perseus) FERENTIUM (Ferento) Italy
- RE Ferentis (C. Hülsen)
- Smith 1854 (Perseus) FERÉNTINUM
- ToposText Ferentium (Italy)
- TrecEnc FERENTO (G. Maetzke, Enciclopedia dell' Arte Antica (1960))
- TrecEnc FERENTO (M. Fenelli, Enciclopedia dell' Arte Antica (1973))
- TrecEnc FERENTO d'Etruria (Arturo Solari, Enciclopedia Italiana (1932))
- Wikipedia (Italian) Ferento
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 C4 Ferentium
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ferento
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Ferentium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413132> [accessed: 10 October 2026]
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