Peltuinum

Coordinates: 42 ° 17 '  N , 13 ° 37'  E

Peltuinum​

Italy

Peltuinum

Peltuinum was an ancient city in Italy in the municipality of Prata d'Ansidonia , about 20 km east of the city of L'Aquila .

The inhabitants of the city belonged to the Vestinians . In Roman times, Peltuinum was a municipality that was on the Via Claudia Nova and belonged to the 4th Augustan region .

The city wall enclosed an area of ​​approx. 22 hectares. The remains of the city wall, a city gate, the amphitheater , a theater and a temple presumably dedicated to Apollo are still visible today .

The senator and general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo came from Peltuinum .

literature

• Adriano La Regina :  Peltuinum Abruzzi, 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: Peltuinum. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, Col. 610.

Web links

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Remarks

1. ↑ CIL 9, 3314 ; Pliny the Elder , Naturalis historia 3, 107 .