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Surroundings:

Roman Rd

Location:

  • Italy, Amelia
  • geo:42.55666,12.413149
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • -11xx~ / unknown

Class:

  • Vicus or canabae
  • invisible

Identifiers:

Annotations

Amelia is located in the south-west of Umbria, near the border with Lazio.  Amelia, formerly named Ameria, according to the mythology founded by King Ameroe, is cited by Pliny in book III of the Naturalis historia. He mentioned tyhat Ameria was founded  963 years before the Roman war against Perseus (r. 179–168 BC), king of Macedonia, and therefore in 1134 BC1.

Sources:

  1. Pliny the Elder, The Natural History III.19

References

  1. ↑ Cato writes that Ameria above-mentioned was founded 964 years before the war with Perseus


Nearby

Roman Rd

Roman Rd

Amelia: Museo Archeologico e Pinacoteca

Archaeological Museum of Amelia. Museo Civico Archeologico e Pinacoteca "E.Rosa"

Amelia

Roman-era necropolis discovered in 2001.


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