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(Lo)Volautrum
(Lo)Volautrum, also Lovolautrum, a fortified castrum in Gaul (Barrington Atlas 17 B2, France), identified with Vollore-Ville near Clermont; stormed by Theuderic I's army per Gregory of Tours, Histories III.13, where priest Proculus was killed at the altar.
*Vindiciacum
Vindiciacum, a Roman villa at Vensat, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France; recorded in the Barrington Atlas gazetteer (map 14 I2) and Pleiades; name ends in Gallo-Roman -acum.
Ad Decimum (Tunisia)
Ad Decimum, a Roman road station ten miles from Carthage in modern Tunisia, site of the Byzantine victory of 13 September 533 where Belisarius defeated Gelimer's Vandals.
Ad Fines (Switzerland)
Ad Fines (Pfyn), late Roman fort in Thurgau, Switzerland, at the provincial border between Maxima Sequanorum and Raetia; built around 294 AD under Diocletian, abandoned after about 400 AD, name origin of Pfyn.
Ad Silanos
Ad Silanos, a Roman mansio on the Tabula Peutingeriana on the Aquileia–Virunum road, usually identified with Artegna in Friuli, Italy; name means "at the cold well" per Schönfeld.
Atrium Vestae
Atrium Vestae, House of the Vestals (Casa delle Vestali): residence of the six Vestal Virgins beside the temple of Vesta in the Roman Forum; visible ruins are mainly Trajanic (c. 110-113 AD), excavated by Lanciani 1882-1884.
Avitacum
Avitacum: the Gallo-Roman villa of Sidonius Apollinaris in the Auvergne, probably near Aydat lake, described in his 460s letter Ep. II.2 to Domitius; inherited via his wife Papianilla, famed for its baths and modeled on Pliny's villa letters.
Botzdorf Roman villa
Villa Fortuna, the Botzdorf Roman villa, is a villa rustica in Bornheim, Germany, found in May 2002 with bath, hypocaust, and frescoes; named for a Fortuna statue; conserved from 2014.
Colonnes de Riez
Colonnes de Riez: four Roman granite columns with Corinthian marble capitals at Riez, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France, the facade of a 1st-century tetrastyle temple on a podium, perhaps dedicated to Apollo; classified monument historique in 1840.
Coux
Coux is a Gallo-Roman villa site at Auzances, Creuse, France, occupied 1st–3rd century AD, with hypocaust-heated baths and a courtyard domus, excavated from 1971 by school pupils under Marc Parrotin and inscribed as a monument historique in 1991.
Dunense Castrum
Dunense Castrum (Dunensis castrum, castellum Dunum): ancient fortified place at Châteaudun, France (Barrington Atlas 11 B4), seat of a short-lived 6th-century bishopric under Gregory of Tours; its late-antique fort is not archaeologically confirmed.
Gabris
Gabris (Gabrae), a road station of the Bituriges Cubi on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Avaricum and Tasciaca in Aquitania, generally identified with Chabris or Gièvres in modern France.
Habitancum
Habitancum, the Roman fort at Risingham near West Woodburn, Northumberland, on Dere Street north of Hadrian's Wall; Antonine origin, Severan stone rebuilding of AD 205-8, garrisoned by the First Cohort of Vangiones, scheduled monument.
Les Petites Varennes, Pouzay
Les Petites Varennes, Pouzay (also Grandes Varennes): Gallo-Roman site on the Vienne in Indre-et-Loire, France, part of a 500 m complex with a fanum straddling Pouzay and Trogues, debated as large villae or a secondary agglomeration.
Milecastle 4 (Westgate Road)
Milecastle 4 (Westgate Road), the Westgate Road Milecastle, is a Hadrian's Wall milecastle found in 1985 beneath Newcastle Arts Centre at 67-75 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne; its position corrected milecastle numbering east of Milecastle 9.
Monterfil II at Corseul
Monterfil II, at Corseul (Côtes-d'Armor), France: an excavated commercial and artisanal quarter of Gallo-Roman Fanum Martis, capital of the Coriosolites, dug 1986-1997 by Hervé Kerébel, occupied 15/10 BC to 4th century AD.
Naustathmos
Naustathmos (ναύσταθμος, "naval station"): Greek term for a ship station, and name of several ancient places, chiefly Ras al-Hillal in Cyrenaica, Libya, with a Justinianic Byzantine church, and a Pontic Black Sea station east of the Halys.
Piazza Ronchi Roman cistern
The Piazza Ronchi Roman cistern (Cisterna di Piazza Ronchi) is a ruined Roman water reservoir in Piazza Ronchi, near the via Prenestina in Rome's Collatino district.
Roman amphitheater at Deva
The Roman amphitheater at Deva was a stone amphitheater built around AD 80-90 beside the legionary fortress of Deva Victrix, in the center of modern Chester, England.
Roman amphitheater at Richborough
Roman amphitheater at Richborough (Rutupiae), Kent: elliptical earthwork with a 62 by 50 m arena seating up to 5,000, first excavated in 1849, with a unique turf outer wall and painted arena wall found in 2021.
Roman theater at Carthage
Roman theater at Carthage: Antonine-era Roman theatre (mid-2nd century AD) on the Odeon hill, Tunisia; 106 m cavea, 10,000 seats, Vitruvian plan, discovered 1904 by Gauckler, now the International Festival of Carthage venue.
Roman villa at Maasbracht
Roman villa at Maasbracht (villa Maasbracht-Steenakker), a Roman villa rustica on the Meuse in Limburg, Netherlands; excavated 1982; famous for frescoes from its stone cellar; abandoned around 260 CE.
Römische Villa Otrang
Römische Villa Otrang (Villa Otrang), a large Roman villa rustica near Fließem, north of Bitburg, Germany, on the Trier–Cologne Roman road; 66 rooms, mosaic floors, occupied 1st–4th century AD, destroyed by Franks, rediscovered in the 19th century.
Theater of Priene
The Theater of Priene is a Hellenistic Greek theater built in the 3rd century BC at Priene in southwestern Turkey, the standard example of a Hellenistic theater.
Theopolis
Theopolis ("City of God") names a 5th-century fortified Christian foundation of the ex-prefect Dardanus near Saint-Geniez, Provence, known only from the Pierre Écrite inscription, and Justinian I's renamed Antioch.
Umbennum
Umbennum, or Mutatio Umbenno, was a Roman road station (mutatio) in Gallia Narbonensis, attested in the 333 Itinerarium Burdigalense on the Rhône valley road, tentatively identified with Étoile-sur-Rhône or Ambonil in the Drôme, France.
Varnava Tower
Varnava Tower (πύργος του Βαρνάβα): two stone towers near Varnavas village, Marathon, East Attica, Greece. A 5th-century BC dry-built square tower and, 500 m away, a Frankish 13th-14th century tower, 5.40 x 9.46 m, at least 11 m high.
Vieil-Évreux Roman Baths
Vieil-Évreux Roman Baths (Gisacum thermes): Gallo-Roman public baths of the sanctuary town of Gisacum near Évreux, France, with twin bathing wings, hypocaust heating, a 25 km aqueduct, and an archaeological garden open since 2002.
Villa Romana Baláca
Villa Romana Baláca (Balácapuszta) is Hungary's largest Roman villa estate, near Nemesvámos and Lake Balaton in Pannonia: a 56-hectare farm with a 2,400 m² residence, Severan mosaics, and the Likas Hill mausoleum of the Tiberii Claudii.