Tres Tabernae

This article deals with the place in Lazio; for the place in Gaul see Saverne .

Tres Tabernae was an ancient place in the Italian landscape of Lazio in the area of ​​the present-day city of Cisterna di Latina . It was 33 Roman miles (about 50 km) from Rome on the Via Appia . Between 1993 and 2001, excavation work on the Via Appia uncovered a thermal bath and other buildings that belonged to the original Tres Tabernae at km 58.1 . In November 2009 the municipality of Cisterna purchased part of the site to continue the excavations. A documentation center is to be set up on the Via Appia.

The place is mentioned in numerous letters by Marcus Tullius Cicero and in the Acts of the Apostles ( Acts 28.15  EU ). On September 16, 307, the Roman Emperor Severus was killed there. In late antiquity, Tres Tabernae was the seat of a bishopric; today it is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church.

literature

• Gerhard Radke : Tres Tabernae 1. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, Col. 938.
• Giovanni Uggeri: Tres Tabernae [1]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/1, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01482-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Press release of the municipality of Cisterna on November 25, 2009, accessed on February 23, 2010 (Italian).

Coordinates: 41 ° 34 '  N , 12 ° 52'  E