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Originally a member of the Latin League, the city of Labicum was taken by the Romans ca. 418 B.C. By the time of Augustus, the site was almost certainly deserted and its precise location remains debated today.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/422952

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.8204265, 12.7432045

Locations:

Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: Imagery location of modern Colonna, Lazio (modern) accuracy: +/- 4 meters.
- Less than certain: DARE Location (modern) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Labicum (Latin, 750 BC - AD 640)
- Λαβικὀν (Labikon: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)

Labicum makes connections with:

Labicum part of (regional) Latium Vetus (region) (unspecified date range)
Labicum connection Via Labicana (unspecified date range)

Labicum receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 43 C2 Labicum

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Colonna

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Suggested citation:
L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Scott Smith, and Greta Hawes, 'Labicum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/422952> [accessed: 26 April 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/422952 |title=Places: 422952 (Labicum) |author=Quilici, L., S. Quilici Gigli |accessdate=April 26, 2025 11:01 am |publisher=Pleiades}}