Cameria
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 20, 2019 10:37 AM
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History
An ancient city of Latium that is noted by Pliny the Elder as one of the lost cities of central Italy.
Show place in AWMC's Antiquity À-la-carte, Google Earth, or Pelagios' Peripleo.
Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/438704
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 Cameria
Tarquinius Priscus captured Cameria and it was destroyed by Opiter Verginius Tricostus in 502 B.C. Tacitus links the site with the gens Coruncania.
N. Purcell, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Cameria: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/438704> [accessed: 29 September 2020]
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