Pons Aufidi
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
A Roman bridge (and possibly coincident road station) on the Via Appia over the Aufidus (modern Ofanto) river in Italy, listed on the Peutinger map and in the Antonine Itinerary. Traditionally it has been identified with a bridge known today as Ponte S. Venere, but recently archaeological work has cast doubt on this view and some scholars now favor an identification with the Ponte romano Pietra dell'Oglio, which lies about 15 miles further south and can be securely dated to the Roman period.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442727
41.0196859645, 15.5542892354
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- Pons Aufidi (30 BC - AD 640)
- Ponte Aufidi (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
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- Less than certain: Pietra Dell’Oglio (bridge) same as Pons Aufidi (unspecified date range)
- Uncertain: Ponte S. Venere same as Pons Aufidi (unspecified date range)
bridge, station (road or coastal)
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 45 C2 Pons Aufidi
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: road station and bridge over R. Ofanto
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Pons Aufidi: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442727> [accessed: 26 April 2024]
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