Marruvium

42.004030555556 13.619358333333Coordinates: 42 ° 0 ' N , 13 ° 37' E

Marruvium

Marruvium ( ancient Greek Μαρούιον Maroúion ) was the most important city of the Italian tribe of the Martians . It was on the eastern shores of the Fucin Lake ( Fucinus Lacus ) drained by Claudius , south of Cerfennia . At first it was called the vicus , and only in the course of the 1st century BC. Called Municipium . Today San Benedetto dei Marsi is located there .

building

Marruvian Amphitheater

Today remains of public buildings (including an amphitheater and two monumental tombs) have been preserved. Only through finds of inscribed statues of the Claudian family is known that around 50 AD there was a theater in the area of Lake Fucin, which was drained by Claudius, west of the city.

cult

The cults of Venus , Minerva , Penates , Vertumnus and Bona Dea are documented in writing .

Epigraph

Several inscriptions from the Republican era have been preserved in and around the city. Underneath, a dedicatory inscription on a cippus testifies to the Martian language .

literature

Maria Ida Gulletta: Marruvium. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , column 945 f.
Adriano La Regina : Marruvium . In: Richard Stillwell (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites . Princeton University Press, 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 , pp. 553 .

Web links

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Information on Marruvium (Italian)

Individual evidence

^ Adriano La Regina : Marruvium . In: Richard Stillwell (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites . Princeton University Press, 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 , pp. 553 .
↑ CIL 9, 3661 , CIL 9, 3662 , CIL 9, 3663
↑ Frank Sear: Roman theaters: An architectural study . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-151827-0 , pp. 152 .
^ Maria Ida Gulletta: Marruvium. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , column 945 f.
^ Helmut Rix : Sabellian texts . The texts of the Oscan, Umbrian and Southern Piken. Universitätsverlag C. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-0853-7 , p. 66 .

[1] Adriano La Regina : Marruvium . In: Richard Stillwell (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites . Princeton University Press, 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 , pp. 553 .

[2] CIL 9, 3661 , CIL 9, 3662 , CIL 9, 3663

[3] Frank Sear: Roman theaters: An architectural study . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-151827-0 , pp. 152 .

[4] Maria Ida Gulletta: Marruvium. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , column 945 f.

[:0-5] Helmut Rix : Sabellian texts . The texts of the Oscan, Umbrian and Southern Piken. Universitätsverlag C. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-0853-7 , p. 66 .