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*Grinario
Grinario (Grinarione), Roman auxiliary fort and vicus at modern Köngen, Baden-Württemberg, on the Mainz–Augsburg road. Fort of 2.42 ha with a quingenary cohort, built c. 90/95 AD, garrison moved to Lorch c. 150, destroyed by Alemanni c. 260.
Ackling Dyke
Ackling Dyke: Roman road earthwork from Old Sarum (Sorviodunum) across Cranborne Chase to Badbury Rings and Dorchester, Margary 4c, with an exceptionally high agger; recent LiDAR work questions whether the whole bank is Roman-built.
Ad Gallinas Albas
Ad Gallinas Albas, meaning "to the white hens," was the ancient name of the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta near Rome, where the Augustus of Prima Porta statue was found.
Altheim-Weirading villa rustica
The Altheim-Weirading villa rustica is a Roman farm estate near Altheim in Upper Austria, occupied from about 80 to 240 CE and excavated in 1994–1998.
Archaeological Site of Mystras
Archaeological Site of Mystras (Mystras, Mistras), a fortified late Byzantine city in the Peloponnese, Greece; castle built 1249 by William II of Villehardouin, seat of the Despotate of Morea, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1989.
Barrington Atlas feature labeled 28
Barrington Atlas feature labeled 28 (Pleiades 140459) is an unnamed ancient villa near Josnes, France, cited as BAtlas 14 G1 no. 28, located at 47.796671, 1.524262 with 30 BC to AD 640 dating and no recorded ancient name.
Basilica Damous el-Karita
Basilica Damous el-Karita (داموس الكريطة), a large nine-aisled Christian cemetery and pilgrimage basilica outside the walls of Roman Carthage, Tunisia, with baptistery, annex hall, and subterranean rotunda, possibly the Basilica Fausti.
Capidava
Capidava: Roman fort and fleet station on the right-bank Danube at Topalu, Constanța County, Romania, built under Trajan by legions V Macedonica and XI Claudia, occupied from the 2nd to the 11th century, excavated since 1924.
Chalkotheke
Chalkotheke (Greek "bronze store"), a building on the Athenian Acropolis storing Athena's bronze dedications and, by the late 4th century BC, an arsenal; known from 4th-century inventory inscriptions and foundations excavated 1888–1889.
Complesso dei Riti Magici
Complesso dei Riti Magici (Pompeii II.1.12), also called Casa di Biria or Officina Magica of Sextilius Pyrricus, is an irregular religious building on Via di Nocera, named for bronze Sabazios hands and offering vessels, with Hellenistic origins and post-62 AD courtyards.
Coste Guizon
Coste Guizon: ancient place in the Barrington Atlas (maps 15 A1 and 17 A5) near Meyrueis, Lozère, France; a Celtic and Gallo-Roman cave sanctuary above the Jonte valley with Iron Age fibulae, pottery, and Roman coins.
Dadastana
Dadastana (τὰ Δαδάστανα), ancient border village between Bithynia and Galatia on the Nicaea–Ancyra road near Karahisar, Turkey; first attested by Ptolemy, best known as where Emperor Jovian died on 17 February 364 AD.
Dangstetten
Dangstetten (Römerlager Dangstetten) is an early Augustan Roman legionary fortress near Küssaberg, Baden-Württemberg, on the north bank of the High Rhine opposite Zurzach. Occupied 15–9 BC by Legio XIX, it is the oldest Roman military site in southern Germany.
Delphinion
Delphinion: sanctuary of Apollo Delphinios at Miletus, Turkey, founded 6th century BCE, destroyed 494 BCE and rebuilt; city archive, prytaneion seat, and start of the Sacred Way procession to Didyma.
Iovalia
Iovalia (Iovallio, Ἰούολλον) was a Roman mutatio (road station) at modern Valpovo, Croatia, on the Mursa–Poetovium road, recorded in the Tabula Peutingeriana, the 333 Bordeaux Itinerary, and Ptolemy; Barrington Atlas 20 F4, Pleiades 197325.
Le Freney
Le Freney is an ancient gold mine recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer (place 167774), cited from Barrington Atlas 17 G3, located at 45.0442 N, 6.124785 E in the French Alps, with dated activity 30 BC to AD 640.
Mollins
Mollins: Roman fortlet or small fort near Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, 4 km south of the Antonine Wall. Flavian (c. AD 80s) Agricolan praesidium, 0.4 ha, found by aerial photography in 1977, excavated by Hanson and Maxwell.
Portus Dubris
Portus Dubris was the Roman port and settlement at modern Dover in Kent, England, a major naval base of the Classis Britannica fleet and a principal entry point to Britannia.
Roman temple of Córdoba
The Roman temple of Córdoba (Templo Romano de Córdoba) is the remains of a large Roman temple in Córdoba, Spain, built in the 1st century A.D.
Sanctuary of Aphrodite/Isis
Sanctuary of Aphrodite/Isis, an ancient sanctuary on the south slope of the Athenian Acropolis west of the Asklepieion, dedicated to Aphrodite epi Hippolyto in the Classical period and associated with Isis from the late first century BC, with a Hadrianic temple and the IG II² 4771 dedication.
Square Peristyle
Square Peristyle (Athens): large Hellenistic law-court building on the east side of the Athenian Agora, built c. 300 BC, 38.75 m per side, demolished c. 150 BC for the Stoa of Attalos.
Temple of Magna Mater
Temple of Magna Mater (aedes Matris Deum Magnae), Palatine Hill temple of Cybele, begun 204 BCE, dedicated 191 BCE, home of the sacred black stone from Pessinus, rebuilt by Augustus after the AD 3 fire.
Temple of Zeus at Nemea
Temple of Zeus at Nemea (Sanctuary of Nemean Zeus): 4th-century BC Doric temple, 32 limestone columns of 13 drums each; three survive, six re-erected since 2002 by UC Berkeley's Nemea Center.
Tericiae
Tericiae (Tericias) was a Roman road station in Gallia Narbonensis on the Via Aurelia between Arles and Aix, 11 miles from Glanum, usually identified near Mouriès in Provence, though Aureille and other sites are also proposed.
Tor di Mezzavia di Frascati
Tor di Mezzavia di Frascati (Torre di Mezzavia), medieval square tower on via Tuscolana at km 11.400 near the via Anagnina junction, halfway between Rome and Frascati; built on a Roman imperial villa with cistern, owned by Mardoni, Annibaldi, and S. Lorenzo nuns.
Vicus Serninus
Vicus Serninus, an unlocated Roman road station (vicus) on the via Emilia Altinate in the Antonine Itinerary, where roads from Modena and Bologna met toward Vicus Varianus and Aquileia; proposed sites cluster near Crevalcore, Guisa Pepoli, Decima, and Maccaretolo.
Vouni
Vouni (Vouni Palace, Ανάκτορο του Βουνιού) is a fortified 5th-century BC palace on a hill near Soloi in northwest Cyprus, excavated 1928-29 by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition, with the Vouni Treasure of coins and Achaemenid jewelry.
Wilderness Plantation Roman fortlet
Wilderness Plantation Roman fortlet, on the Antonine Wall in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland; found by aerial photography in the 1950s, excavated 1965-66; bonded with the Wall, double-ditched, about 19.8 by 17.5 m internally.