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Monheim-Haus Bürgel
Monheim-Haus Bürgel (Haus Bürgel), a late Roman fort of about 64 x 64 m near Monheim am Rhein on the Lower German Limes; UNESCO World Heritage 2021, walls up to 4 m preserved, Roman museum, biological station, stud farm.
Montmaurin Gallo-Roman villa
Montmaurin Gallo-Roman villa: two large villas (Lassalles and Hillère) in Comminges, Haute-Garonne, France, founded in the 1st century, rebuilt as an aristocratic palace around 330–350, excavated by Georges Fouet.
Mosphiloudia
Mosphiloudia (Μοσφιλοϋδια), ancient Cypriot place at Barrington Atlas 72 D3, southwest of Xylofagou, Larnaca district; Hellenistic-Roman site known for its ancient quarry with unfinished abandoned statues (Karageorghis 1969).
Mus Roman Quarry
Mus Roman Quarry: ancient sandstone quarry south-west of Nîmes, France, in province Narbonensis, listed in Ben Russell's Gazetteer of Stone Quarries in the Roman World; stone used locally in the Roman Imperial period.
Navatejera
The Roman villa of Navatejera is a Roman archaeological site in Villaquilambre, about 3 km north of León, Spain, occupied until the 5th century and protected since 1888.
Nekromanteion
Nekromanteion (Νεκρομαντεῖον), the Acheron oracle of the dead in Preveza, Epirus, excavated by Sotirios Dakaris; a Hellenistic complex with a fifteen-arch underground crypt, burned by Rome in 167 BC, its identification still debated.
New Bouleuterion
New Bouleuterion (Νέον Βουλευτήριον): late 5th-century BC council house west of the Old Bouleuterion in the Athenian Agora, housing the Council of 500; about 21.5 × 16.9 m, four interior columns, wooden amphitheater seating, in use into the Roman period.
New Weir
New Weir (The Weir, Swainshill, Kenchester, Herefordshire) is a scheduled Roman riverside monument on the River Wye near Magnis, with an octagonal cistern, stone revetments, and mosaics; interpreted as villa, bath house, temple, or water shrine.
Nicia
Nicia (Nicea), ancient road station on the Via Egnatia in Lyncestis, Macedonia, 11 Roman miles from Heraclea; attested in the Antonine Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana, possibly identical with Castra/Parembole near Dolenci, candidate site Capari.
North Theater (Jerash)
North Theater (Odeon) of Jerash, ancient Gerasa, Jordan: small Roman theater built as a bouleuterion around 135/140 AD, converted to an odeon by 165/166, expanded to about 1,600 seats, with Greek tribal seat inscriptions.
Odeion of Perikles
Odeion of Perikles (Ωδείον του Περικλέους), a large roofed square hall on Athens' Acropolis south slope, built 447–443/2 BC for Panathenaic musical contests, imitating Xerxes' tent, later rebuilt by Ariobarzanes II.
Odeon at Hadrian's Villa
The so-called Odeon (South Theatre) at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli: a private theatre of about 1,100 seats, 55 m cavea, built 133-138 CE; recent scholarship rejects the odeon identification.
Oriza/Oruba/Oresa
Oriza/Oruba/Oresa, an ancient place in the Syrian steppe identified with the oasis of Tayibe north of Palmyra; attested in Ptolemy, the Tabula Peutingeriana, and the Notitia Dignitatum as a base of Legio IV Scythica on the Strata Diocletiana.
Osterburken
Osterburken, Germany: Roman fort on the Upper German-Raetian Limes, built about 160 CE, cohort fort of 2.14 ha plus 185–192 CE annex, garrisoned by Aquitanian cohort and Brittonum numerus, with Mithraeum and beneficiarii shrine.
Othona
Othona (Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex) was a late 3rd-century Roman Saxon Shore fort at the mouth of the Blackwater estuary, garrisoned by the numerus Fortensium per the Notitia Dignitatum; its west gate now carries St Peter's Chapel, founded by St Cedd in 654.
Panionion
Panionion (Πανιώνιον), also rendered Panionium, is the sanctuary of Poseidon Helikonios on Mount Mycale in Ionia that served as the common meeting place of the Ionian League.
Pen-y-Gaer Roman fort
Pen-y-Gaer Roman fort (near Bwlch, Powys) is a small Flavian auxiliary fort, about 1.2 ha, midway between Brecon Gaer and Abergavenny, occupied c. 80-130 AD with a vicus revealed by 2018 drought aerial photography.
Penteskouphia
Penteskouphia, site southwest of Acrocorinth near Corinth, source of about 1,000 Archaic votive terracotta plaques (pinakes) dedicated to Poseidon from 1879, famed for depictions of potters, kilns, and workshop scenes.
Phanai
Phanai (Φανά) was an ancient sanctuary of Apollo Phanaios at Kato Phana on southwest Chios, cult from Mycenaean times, stone temple by the 7th century BC, later a Christian basilica.
Pike Hill Signal Tower
Pike Hill Signal Tower, near Banks, Cumbria, is an early 2nd-century Roman signal tower on the Stanegate frontier, later incorporated into Hadrian's Wall at a 45-degree angle; its 6.10 m square remains were excavated in 1931–32 and are in English Heritage guardianship.
Piscina Torta
Piscina Torta, Early Iron Age salt-production site by briquetage in the Castel Fusano pinewood near Ostia, Rome, on the southern Tiber delta; occupied late 8th to 6th century BCE, with kilns, a partly artificial canal, and the first central Italian lime mortar.
Pons Aemilius
Pons Aemilius (Ponte Rotto), Rome's first stone bridge over the Tiber, begun 179 BC by censors Nobilior and Lepidus, completed with stone arches in 142 BC; one arch survives.
Pons Neronianus
Pons Neronianus (Pons Vaticanus, Bridge of Nero), ancient Roman Tiber bridge begun under Caligula and completed under Nero, linking Campus Martius to the Vatican circus; piers still visible in the riverbed during low water.
Pyrgos Kheimarrou
Pyrgos Kheimarrou (Πύργος Χειμάρρου), Tower of Cheimarros: circular 4th-century BC Hellenistic marble tower in southeastern Naxos, Cyclades, 9.20 m in diameter, with a 35 m square enclosure, Hellenistic and Roman agricultural workshops, and debated military or signal-fire function.
Qaşr Qaddās
Qaşr Qaddās (Qasr Qaddas) is a ruined Roman fort in Libya, possibly the road station Thebunte of the Antonine Itinerary, 30 miles from Base and Auxiqua, at 31.69 N, 15.03 E.
Raedykes camp
Raedykes camp: Roman temporary (marching) camp near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, also called Raedykes Roman camp; late 1st-century AD, 38.9 ha, six tituli, largely upstanding earthwork, Scheduled Monument SM1016.
Reontio
Reontio, an ancient villa and vicus at modern Rions (Gironde, France), cited as Barrington Atlas 14 E4; mentioned by Gregory of Tours in De Gloria Confessio 48; Late Antique, AD 300-640.
Riegel
Riegel (Riegel am Kaiserstuhl), Baden-Württemberg, Germany: Roman forts from the mid 1st century AD and a later civitas capital of about 27 ha in Germania superior, with a 75 m basilica, forum, and mithraeum, declining in the 3rd-century crisis.
Road: Sexaginta Prista → Abritus → Shoumen
Road: Sexaginta Prista → Abritus → Shoumen, Roman route from the Danube port of 60 ships at Ruse through Abritus (Razgrad) toward Shumen, documented by a 245–247 milestone of Philip the Arab and the 251 Battle of Abritus.
Roman amphitheater at Egnatia/Gnathia
So-called Roman amphitheater at Egnatia/Gnathia (Egnazia, Fasano, Apulia): elliptical opus Africanum enclosure, arena about 25 x 37 m; date and amphitheater function disputed, possibly a forum market or Cybele-cult venue.