Venafrum
Venafrum was an ancient Samnite town in the Volturnus Valley (now Venafro in the Italian region of Molise ).
Venafrum was on the natural route between Samnium and Campania . In Augustan times the city became colonia .
Remains of the orthogonal city layout (divided into blocks), the city wall, domus from the 1st century BC, have been preserved on the slope of today's Monte S. Croce . With mosaics and paintings of the 3rd Pompeian style , a Roman theater from the 1st century BC. BC with extensions from Julio-Claudian times, an amphitheater and an aqueduct , which diverted water from the source area of the Volturnus and whose operation is described in an edict preserved in inscriptions.
An earthquake damaged the theater in AD 346.
literature
- Gérard Chouquer et al .: Structures agraires en Italie Centro-Méridionale: cadastres et paysages ruraux , Rome 1987, ISBN 2-7283-0115-8 .
- Sylvia Diebner : Aesernia - Venafrum. Investigations into the Roman stone monuments of two country towns in central Italy . Bretschneider, Rome 1979, ISBN 88-85007-27-9 .
- Adriano La Regina : Venafrum (Venafro) Molise, 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 .
- Maria Milvia Morciano: Venafrum. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/2, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01487-8 , Sp. 1.
Remarks
Coordinates: 41 ° 29 ' N , 14 ° 2' E