Circuit wall of Rusellae
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 02, 2026 12:27 PM
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History
The megalithic defensive circuit of Rusellae dates to the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. and represents an important early example of stone-built fortifications in central Italy.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/999951524
42.8296451925, 11.1631187589
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of city wall (750 BC - 330 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Mura di Roselle (Italian, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Stadtmauer von Roselle (German, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- walls of Rusellae (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Circuit wall of Rusellae located at Rusellae (unspecified date range)
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wall (of a city), city wall
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Ryan Horne, 'Circuit wall of Rusellae: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/999951524> [accessed: 22 July 2026]
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