Ferentium

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The theater of Ferentium

Ferentium (Italian: Ferento) was an ancient city in southern Etruria in what is now the municipality of Viterbo in northern Lazio . The name of the city is also given as Ferentinum , Ferentum or Ferentia . (Another Ferentinum , today's Ferentino , was in southern Lazio.)

Ferentium had an Etruscan predecessor settlement near today's Acquarossa , as a necropolis shows. In Roman times the city was a municipality of the tribe Stellatina and the 7th region of Italy. The Roman emperor Otho and Flavia Domitilla , the wife of the emperor Vespasian, came from Ferentium . She or her daughter of the same name received a temple there as diva Domitilla . In 1172 Ferentium was destroyed by its neighboring town Viterbo.

The ruins of a theater, a thermal bath and a street are still preserved from the ancient city . However, they can only be viewed on special occasions. Since summer 2011 the theater has been used again for performances.

The thermal baths

literature

  • Gabriella Maetzke, Maria Elena Calabria, Domenico Fronti, Paolo Güll, Francesca Panichi, Tamara Patilli, Sergio Pregagnoli, Giuseppe Romagnoli, Flora Scaia, Mariacristina Varano: Ferento (Viterbo), indagini archeologiche nell'area urbana (1994-2000) , in: Archeologia Medievale XXVIII (2001) 295-322.
  • George Dennis: The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria . John Murray, London 1848, pp. 203-209 ( online ).
  • Hagen Hemmie: Rome - Latium . 6th edition. Michael Müller, Erlangen 2001, ISBN 3-923278-30-6 , p. 507.
  • Christoph Hennig: Lazio . 3rd updated edition. Ostfildern, DuMont 2006, ISBN 3-7701-6031-2 , pp. 76-77.
  • Gerhard Radke : Ferentium. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 536.
  • Daniela Williams " Le monete di Ferento: tre ritrovamenti a confronto ", Metodologia, insediamenti urbani e produioni. Il contributo di Gabriella Maetzke e le attuali prospettive delle ricerche, in Daidalos 9 (2008), pp. 161-186.

Web links

Commons : Ferentium  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ For other ancient cities of this name cf. Bill Thayer: Ferentum and Ferentinum .
  2. ^ Suetonius, Otho 1 .
  3. ^ Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 3 .
  4. ↑ AE 1962, 272
  5. ↑ Program for the 2014 theater season in Ferento

Coordinates: 42 ° 29 '  N , 12 ° 8'  E