Velini L.
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).
Last modified
Jun 13, 2023 05:05 PM
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History
In the Roman period the Lacus Velinus was a larger body of water than the surviving remnant that is now known as Lake Piediluco. Modern intervention drained water away from the lake into the lower Nera River.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413371
42.533874, 12.753397
- Representative Locations:
- location of Lago di Piediluco (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Lago di Piediluco (Italian, modern)
- lacus Velinus (Velini L.: Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 D3 Velini L.
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W.V. Harris, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Velini L.: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413371> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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BAtlas 42 D3-D4 lumps up to four lakes under the name Velini Lacus - do we wish to subdivide, creating geometry for each lake?