Historical place profile
‘Iovis Lareni’
‘Iovis Lareni’ is marked as a station on the Peutinger map. It lies 7 miles from Sulmo. This place coincides with the ancient site of Ocriticum, a pre-Roman and Roman settlement. The site, located in the Italian comune of Cansano (province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo), includes the remains of two Italo-Roman temples sacred to Jupiter and Hercules and a sacellum of Ceres and Venus.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:432886
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:432886
- Place type
- sanctuary, settlement, station
- Coordinates
- 42.002940, 13.990124
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
‘Iovis Lareni’ is marked as a station on the Peutinger map. It lies 7 miles from Sulmo. This place coincides with the ancient site of Ocriticum, a pre-Roman and Roman settlement. The site, located in the Italian comune of Cansano (province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo), includes the remains of two Italo-Roman temples sacred to Jupiter and Hercules and a sacellum of Ceres and Venus.
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 44 F1 ‘Iovis Lareni’
Source and reuse
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Research path
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