Herdonia
Herdonia (also Herdoniae , Herdonea or Ardoneae ) was an ancient city in the southern Italian countryside of Apulia . It was about 25 km south of Foggia on the south bank of the Carapelle River near today's Ordona .
Archaeological research shows that the place was at the beginning of the 3rd century BC. BC already had a fortification up to 13 m thick with a brick-reinforced earth wall. Herdonia is only mentioned in written sources in the late 3rd century BC. Mentioned when Hannibal won several victories over the Romans (212 and 210 BC) in his vicinity, the city burned down and its inhabitants in 210 BC. Deported. Herdonia continued to exist after the end of the Second Punic War , but did not gain any major importance until the beginning of the imperial era. At the beginning of the 1st century BC The city wall was reinforced. Herdonia was an important stop at an intersection of the Via Traiana during the imperial era . The city has been monumentally expanded since the Augustan period. Herdonia's heyday ended in the 3rd century when many public buildings were abandoned or rebuilt.
Herdonia has been the seat of a bishop since the 5th century (the diocese continues in the form of the titular Erdonia ). According to the findings, the town was inhabited until the 17th century.
Apart from the public buildings from the Roman period, the extensive necropolis outside the city, which dates back to pre-Roman times, is archaeological .
literature
- Jozef Mertens, Giuliano Volpe: Herdonia - un itinerario storico-archeologico. Edipuglia, Bari 1999, ISBN 88-7228-235-7 .
- Jozef Mertens: Herdonia (Ordona) 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 .
- Gerhard Radke : Herdoniae. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 1058.
Remarks
- ↑ Titus Livius 24, 20, 8: 25, 21, and 23; 27, 1, 6; Appian , Hannibal War 48.
Coordinates: 41 ° 19 ′ 7 ″ N , 15 ° 37 ′ 30 ″ E