Ripa Veientana

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In ancient Rome, the Ripa Veientana denotes the western bank of the Tiber , the counterpart to the ripa Romana . The name appears in inscriptions on the cippi of the officials responsible for the maintenance of the banks, the curatores riparum , more frequently during the imperial period , but is probably of ancient origin and included the area between the Cremera, a tributary of the Tiber, and the sea. The initial name was well Ripa Veiens , so the bank Veii , which the Etruscan v Veii to the year 396th Was controlled as Etruscan territory.

literature

  • Samuel Ball Platner , Thomas Ashby : A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome . Oxford University Press, London 1929, p. 448 ( online ).
  • Lawrence Richardson Jr .: A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1992, p. 333 (Ripa Veientana) .
  • Frank Kolb : Rome: The history of the city in antiquity . 2nd Edition. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2002, p. 678 note 8.

Individual evidence

  1. CIL 6, 31547 , CIL 6, 31548b , CIL 6, 31555 .