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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Jan 14, 2017 09:47 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
42.4886469, 12.1315798
- DARMC location 18434 (330 BC - AD 640)
- location of Roman theater (330 BC - AD 300)
- Ferentium (330 BC - AD 640)
- Ferentium connection tribus Stellatina (unspecified date range)
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settlement, theatre, theater
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 C4 Ferentium
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ferento
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ferentium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413132> [accessed: 20 April 2018]
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