Ponte S. Venere
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).
Last modified
Jul 13, 2022 05:20 PM
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History
A much-repaired medieval bridge crossing the Aufidus (modern Ofanto) river. Long a traditional candidate location for the "Pons Aufidi" shown on the Peutinger map (thus BAtlas), recent survey work has found no evidence in the area consistent with a Roman-era bridge. The Pietra Dell'Oglio bridge (further south on the Ofanto) is of Roman date and now a more likely candidate. The Ponte S. Venere remains in use today for the Strada Statale 303.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/443954
41.07416315, 15.545506475
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (30 BC - AD 640)
- OSM Location of bridge (AD 640 - Present)
- None
- Uncertain: Ponte S. Venere same as Pons Aufidi (unspecified date range)
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None
bridge, station (road or coastal)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 45 C2
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ponte S. Venere, over R. Ofanto at Pons Aufidi on Via Appia
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ponte S. Venere: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/443954> [accessed: 03 February 2023]
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