Ardotalia (Zerdotalia)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
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Aug 26, 2023 08:49 PM
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History
A Roman fort of the first and second centuries A.D. at present day Melandra Castle.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79777
53.4522182187, -1.98778428997
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 19229 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- Boundary of fort walls (approx.) (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Ardotalia (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Melandra Castle (English, modern)
- Zerdotalia (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
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fort, tower (deprecated)
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 F1 ‘Zerdotalia’
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Melandra Castle
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Ardotalia (Zerdotalia): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79777> [accessed: 24 April 2024]
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Quoting this name as Ardotalia is wrong. The name recorded in the Ravenna Cosmography is very clearly Zerdotalia. It follows a name spelled differently in the three surviving manuscripts, with endings in in za, ze or ya, suggesting a local problem around the word division. The least bad speculative restoration of the two names may be Aquis Arneme# Sacerdotalia.