Oplontis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: N. Purcell
Creators: N. Purcell
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 12, 2023 06:43 PM
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History
An ancient place (modern Torre Annunziata in Italy), lying between Pompeii and Herculaneum and buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE. Its ancient name is known only from Peutinger's Roman Map.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432992
40.7573908393, 14.4527291195
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Scavi archeologici di Oplonti (330 BC - AD 300)
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 300)
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- Oplont[.]s (Oplontis: Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Oplontis (English, modern)
- None
- Villa of L. Crassius Tertius located at Oplontis (30 BC - AD 300)
settlement, villa
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 44 F4 Oplontis
- Clarke 2019
- Clarke and Muntasser 2014
- De Franciscis 1973
- De Franciscis 1975
- GAL Pompei 250-55
- McGinn 2002
- Oplontis Project
- PECS (Perseus) OPLONTIS (Torre Annunziata) Campania, Italy
- Pompeii Sites Oplontis
- Pompeii Sites Poppea's Villa
- Thomas 2015, 403-11
- Thomas and Clarke 2007
- Thomas, Michael L., Ivo van der Graaff , Paul Wilkinson . 2013. The Oplontis Project 2012-13: A Report of Excavations at Oplontis B.
- ToposText Oplontis (Italy)
- Van der Graaff et al. 2019
- WHL 829: Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
- Wikipedia (English) Torre Annunziata
- Wikipedia (Italian) Scavi archeologici di Oplonti
- Zarmakoupi 2017
- See Also:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 F4 Oplontis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Torre Annunziata
N. Purcell, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Oplontis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432992> [accessed: 23 September 2023]
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