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Tusculum

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli

Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, John Muccigrosso, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

Last modified Sep 08, 2024 10:27 AM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, municipium, dare:feature=major settlement

Tusculum was a Latin city of the Alban Hills in central Italy. After 381 B.C., Tusculum became the first "municipium cum suffragio".

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423108

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.798284, 12.710316

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARMC location 18975 (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 4 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Τούσκλον (Tousklon: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Τούσκουλον (Touskoulon: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Tuscolo (Italian, modern)
- Tusculum (Latin, 750 BC - AD 640)

Tusculum makes connections with:

Tusculum member of Latin League (unspecified date range)
Tusculum located on Via Labicana (unspecified date range)

Tusculum receives connections from:

Aqua Crabra connection Tusculum (unspecified date range)
Casale Bevilacqua located at Tusculum (unspecified date range)
Mausoleum of M. Coelius Vinicianus located at Tusculum (30 BC - AD 300)
Roman amphitheater at Tusculum located at Tusculum (unspecified date range)
Roman theater at Tusculum located at Tusculum (unspecified date range)
Villa Rufinella located near Tusculum (unspecified date range)
Villa Torlonia located west of Tusculum (unspecified date range)
Villa di Prastina Pacato located at Tusculum (30 BC - AD 300)

Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 43 C2 Tusculum

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tuscolo

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Suggested citation:
L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, John Muccigrosso, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Tusculum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423108> [accessed: 21 June 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423108 |title=Places: 423108 (Tusculum) |author=Quilici, L., S. Quilici Gigli |accessdate=June 21, 2025 7:01 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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