Politorium
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
Jul 12, 2019 02:18 PM
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History
An ancient town of Latium located near Castel di Decima. Tradition holds that Ancus Marcius captured the settlement and relocated its occupants to the Aventine Hill in Rome.
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/438811
- Barrington Atlas location (750 BC - 550 BC)
- Poletaurini (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Πολιτώριον (Politorion: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - 550 BC)
- Politorium (Latin, 750 BC - 550 BC)
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unlocated, settlement
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 Politorium
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: S Rome
N. Purcell, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Politorium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/438811> [accessed: 11 July 2020]
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