Historical place profile
Piazza d'Armi
The site of the arx of ancient Veii located on the southern spur of the volcanic plateau on which the city is located. There is archaeological evidence for an initial occupation phase of the ninth century B.C. By the seventh century B.C., the area shows evidence for adoption of rectilinear huts and assumes an orthogonal street grid.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:735955220
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:735955220
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 42.013633, 12.407232
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
The site of the arx of ancient Veii located on the southern spur of the volcanic plateau on which the city is located. There is archaeological evidence for an initial occupation phase of the ninth century B.C. By the seventh century B.C., the area shows evidence for adoption of rectilinear huts and assumes an orthogonal street grid.
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: Pleiades
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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