Hispellum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: W.V. Harris
Creators: W.V. Harris
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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Apr 06, 2025 10:31 AM
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History
Hispellum (modern Spello) is an ancient settlement of Umbria that became a Roman colony in the first century BC.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413170
42.9903585, 12.6718645
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 18037 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Hispellates (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Hispellum located on Via Flaminia (unspecified date range)
- Orticello, Spello located near Hispellum (30 BC - AD 300)
- Porta Consolare located at Hispellum (unspecified date range)
- Porta Venere located at Hispellum (unspecified date range)
- Roman amphitheater at Hispellum located at Hispellum (unspecified date range)
- Roman aqueduct, Spello located at Hispellum (unspecified date range)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 42 D3 Hispellum
- CIL XI, 5265
- CIL XI, 5278
- EDH G020779: Hispellum – Spello
- Lib. Colon p. 224
- New Pauly Hispellum
- Orell. Inscr. 98
- PECS (Perseus) HISPELLUM (Spello) Umbria, Italy
- Plin. Letters (Mynors: PHI) 8.8.6
- RE Hispellum
- Smith 1854 (Perseus) HISPELLUM
- ToposText Hispellum (Umbria)
- Wikipedia (English) Spello
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 D3 Hispellum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Spello
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Hispellum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413170> [accessed: 21 June 2025]
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