Aeclanum
Aec (u) lanum was an ancient city of the Samnite Hirpiner . It was located in the central Calore Valley , 22 kilometers southeast of Benevento and about 70 km northwest of Naples , at the point where the Via Herdonitana (also Aeclanensis) and the Via Appia crossed, near today's Mirabella Eclano in the province of Avellino . 89 BC The city was taken by Sulla and became a municipium of the tribus Cornelia (later it belonged to the Augustan regio II of Italy). In the 2nd century, the city under the corrector Apuliae et Calabriae was called colonia Aelia Augusta . In late antiquity the city was the seat of a bishopric; The most famous bishop was the Pelagian Julian von Aeclanum in the 5th century (the titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to the diocese of Aeclanum ). 662 destroyed troops of Constans II Aeclanum.
Today there are remains of the city wall, which had three gates and a defense tower every 20 meters. There is also a theater, an amphitheater , a macellum , large thermal baths , a cistern , an aqueduct, as well as an early Christian basilica and a baptistery .
Near Mirabella Eclano there is a grotto ( Grotte di Passo ) with ruins and an Oscar inscription .
literature
- Giampiero Galasso: Aeclanum. Municipio e colonia romana . In: Voce Altirpina 10, No. 1 (June 1988), pp. 559-564.
- Luisa Martiniello: Aeclanum tra archeologia e storia . Pro loco Aeclanum, Mirabella Eclano 1996.
- Antonio Salvatore: Aeclanum. Mille anni di storia irpina . L'Amico del Terziario, Foggia 1982.
- John Bryan Ward-Perkins : Aeclanum (Eclano) Italy . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
- Christian Hülsen : Aeclanum . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, column 443 f.
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Coordinates: 41 ° 3 ′ 14 ″ N , 15 ° 0 ′ 40 ″ E