Historical place profile
Tarracina(e)/Anxur
A strategic Volscian city that had come under Roman control by 509 B.C.; a Roman citizen colony was established there in 329 B.C. The site is particularly notable for the remains of the terraced sanctuary of Iuppiter Anxur.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:433143
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:433143
- Place type
- sanctuary, settlement
- Coordinates
- 41.291169, 13.248850
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A strategic Volscian city that had come under Roman control by 509 B.C.; a Roman citizen colony was established there in 329 B.C. The site is particularly notable for the remains of the terraced sanctuary of Iuppiter Anxur.
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 D3 Tarracina(e)/Anxur
Source and reuse
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Research path
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