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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Mar 29, 2024 05:39 PM
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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 noted for its fine stone monuments and statues.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413132
42.48859, 12.132177
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 18434 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Ferentium (330 BC - AD 640)
- 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
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- 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, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413132> [accessed: 11 October 2024]
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