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Epiacum

a Pleiades name resource

Creators: Scott Vanderbilt
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
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Alternate name of Roman fort at present-day Whitley Castle.

Epiacum

Epiacum

Latin

geographic name

accurate

complete

Certain

  • Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300) (confident, but inferred (i.e., no contemporary evidence))
  • Late Antique (AD 300-AD 640) (confident, but inferred (i.e., no contemporary evidence))

Citation:

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 E6 Epiakon?

Epiacum is the presumed original Latin name of this site. It is only attested in Greek (Epiakon), via Ptolemy. Epiacum is the form under which the site is listed in Rivet and Smith.