Forum Clodii

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Forum Clodii was an ancient Roman city in southern Etruria . It was on Via Clodia on the west bank of Lake Bracciano .

It was localized by the discovery of inscriptions, including a stone with a dedication for Lucius Licinius Iulianus on which the name of the city is explicitly mentioned, at the Romanesque church of San Liberato north of Bracciano . The church contains numerous ancient spolia that could have come from the city.

Forum Clodii is mentioned in 313 as a bishopric. As early as 649, the mention of the Episcopus Manturanensis appears in its place , which indicates that the bishopric was moved to what is now Canale Monterano . Forum Clodii may have been destroyed by the Lombards in 573 and then abandoned.

The titular bishopric of Forum Clodii of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to the extinct bishopric in Forum Clodii .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.forumclodii.org Quaderno 5, Bracciano 1998 (Italian), accessed June 30, 2012
  2. ↑ Esch: Between antiquity and the Middle Ages , p. 188.
  3. ↑ Esch: Between Antiquity and the Middle Ages , p. 39.
  4. ^ Homepage of the city of Bracciano (Italian), accessed on May 15, 2016
  5. ↑ Gasperini: Ecclesia Foroclodiensis

literature

  • Edward Herbert Bunbury:  Forum Clodii . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.
  • Lidio Gasperini: Ecclesia Foroclodiensis in Antichità tardoromane e medievali nel territorio di Bracciano . BetaGamma editrice, Viterbo: pp. 275-295
  • Arnold Esch : Between Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The decline of the Roman road system in central Italy and the Via Amerina. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62143-7 .

Coordinates: 42 ° 7 ′ 20.2 "  N , 12 ° 10 ′ 28.6"  E

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