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Roman amphitheater at Burnum
Roman military amphitheatre at Burnum, Croatia, the only preserved military amphitheatre in the country. Oval, four vaulted entrances, 6,000-10,000 capacity, built on a karst sinkhole; begun under Claudius by Legio XI, completed AD 76/77 under Vespasian.
Roman amphitheater at Carmo
Roman amphitheater at Carmo (Carmona, Seville), 1st century BC, oldest documented amphitheater in the Iberian Peninsula; arena 55 x 39 m, dug into rock, excavated from 1885 by Fernández López and Bonsor, declared BIC in 2003.
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 Durno(no)varia
Roman amphitheater at Durno(no)varia: the Maumbury Rings amphitheatre in Dorchester, Dorset, a Neolithic henge remodelled for the Roman town of Durnovaria, possibly as a military ludus, later a Civil War fort.
Roman amphitheater at Frusino
Roman amphitheater at Frusino (anfiteatro romano di Frosinone), a small 1st-2nd century AD amphitheater of Roman Frusino, modern Frosinone, Italy; about 80 x 60 m, roughly 2,000 seats, found in 1965 under a viale Roma building near the Via Latina.
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 amphitheater at Scythopolis/Nysa
Roman amphitheater at Scythopolis/Nysa-Scythopolis (Bet She'an, Israel): a fourth-century CE conversion of the city's second-century hippodrome into a stadium-like arena, used mainly for venationes; one of few amphitheater-like buildings in the Decapolis.
Roman amphitheater at Thibiuca
Roman amphitheater at Thibiuca, a Roman town in Africa Proconsularis (modern Tunisia, near Tebourba); attested in the Pleiades gazetteer at modern Henchir Bou Cha, with no published dimensions or excavation record.
Roman Aqueduct from Gorze to Metz
The Roman aqueduct from Gorze to Metz, also called aqueduc de Metz, was a 22 km, early 2nd-century channel carrying the source des Bouillons spring water to Divodurum, with a 1.1 km arcaded bridge at Ars-sur-Moselle and Jouy-aux-Arches.
Roman city gate, Mainz
Roman city gate, Mainz (Römertor): late Roman gate of Mogontiacum built around 360/370 AD from spolia of the abandoned legion camp on the Kästrich, discovered in 1985, the only Roman city gate found in Mainz.
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.
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 theater at Ostia
Roman theater at Ostia Antica (Teatro romano di Ostia), brick theater built by Agrippa late 1st century BC, rebuilt under Commodus and Septimius Severus to hold 4,000, heavily restored 1927, still used for summer performances.
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.
Roșia Montană Mining Landscape
The Roșia Montană Mining Landscape is a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape in Romania's Apuseni Mountains, known as Alburnus Maior, Rome's principal gold mine after 106 CE.
Rossano
Rossano (Rossano di Vaglio), Lucanian sanctuary in Vaglio Basilicata, Italy, founded mid-4th century BC for the Oscan goddess Mefitis; federal sanctuary of the Lucanians, monumentalized in the 2nd century BC. Distinct from Rossano, the Byzantine town in Calabria.
S. Cruz
S. Cruz (Villa romana de Santa Cruz), late Roman villa at Baños de Valdearados, Burgos, Spain; discovered 1972, excavated by Argente Oliver; famed for its 4th-century Bacchus mosaic, stolen in 2011 and replaced by a replica.
Saloca
Saloca, a Roman road station in Noricum on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Virunum and Aquileia, 11 Roman miles (17.6 km) from Virunum, identified with Krumpendorf, Austria; distinct from any other ancient place of similar name.
Sanctuary of Aphrodite Paphia
Sanctuary of Aphrodite Paphia, at Palaepaphos (Kouklia), Cyprus: the ancient world's most famous sanctuary of Aphrodite, founded c. 1200 BC, aniconic conical-stone cult, Roman rebuilding c. AD 100, UNESCO World Heritage since 1980.
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.
Sanctuary of Apollo at Cyrene
Sanctuary of Apollo at Cyrene, Libya: principal Greek sanctuary of Apollo Karneios, founded 7th century BC, with Doric temple, sacred Fountain of Apollo, Karneia festival, and Roman-era cult statue; damaged in the early 2nd-century AD Jewish revolt.
Sanctuary of Cybèle
Sanctuary of Cybèle (sanctuaire de Cybèle), Lyon: Roman site on Fourvière hill above the Roman theatre, long misidentified as a temple of Cybele; reinterpreted by Desbat as a governor's praetorium or domus built about 10 A.D.
Sanctuary of Sol Indiges
Sanctuary of Sol Indiges, ancient sanctuary of the old Roman sun god at the mouth of the Numicus river at Lavinium's seaport, tied to Aeneas' landing; first built c. 520 BC, rebuilt mid-Republican as a fortified enclosure.
Sandarakourgion Oros
Sandarakourgion Oros (σανδαρακουργεῖον ὄρος), Latinized Sandaracurgium, the "Realgar-mine mountain" of Paphlagonia near Pompeiopolis and Pimolisa, whose arsenic mine worked by condemned slaves Strabo describes at Geography 12.3.40.
Sarmizegetusa Roman amphitheater
The Roman amphitheater of Colonia Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, capital of Dacia: an 88 x 69 m civilian elliptical building seating about 5,000, begun in wood around 108 AD, rebuilt in stone, later a fortress.
Sep. Geta
Sep. Geta (Sepolcro di Geta) is a Roman tower tomb at no. 41 Via Appia Antica, Rome, traditionally but wrongly identified as the tomb of Geta, murdered by Caracalla in AD 212; the Severans were buried in Hadrian's Mausoleum.
Sexaginta Prista
Sexaginta Prista (Сексагинта Приста), "sixty ships", was a Roman Danube frontier fort and probable naval base at modern Ruse, Bulgaria, over a Thracian ritual site, with a 4th-century principia, later a medieval necropolis.
So-called Roman Gymnasium at Syracuse
The so-called Roman Gymnasium at Syracuse is a Roman complex on the Via Elorina in Syracuse, Sicily, with an elevated quadriporticus, a temple, and a small theater.
Son Bou Basilica
Son Bou Basilica: early Christian basilica ruin at the east end of Son Bou beach, Alaior, Menorca; three naves, tripartite apse, monolithic cruciform font; traditionally 5th century, radiocarbon suggests 677-708 AD.