Historical place profile
Forentum?
Scholars associated the ancient place Forentum with Lavello in south Italy. In antiquity, this was an indigenous center active from the Early Iron Age that gradually manifested the material culture of Greek colonists in Magna Graecia.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:442584
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:442584
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 41.045625, 15.790762
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Scholars associated the ancient place Forentum with Lavello in south Italy. In antiquity, this was an indigenous center active from the Early Iron Age that gradually manifested the material culture of Greek colonists in Magna Graecia.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 45 C2 Forentum?
Source and reuse
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Research path
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