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Prisciago
Prisciago: ancient Gallo-Roman place name on Barrington Atlas Map 14, grid G4, tentatively identified with Prayssac (Lot, France), cited from Vita Sancti Desiderii 9(17) and recorded in Pleiades as place 138524.
Puy-Lautard
Puy-Lautard (Sanctuaire gallo-romain du Puy-Lautard) is a Gallo-Roman double-cella fanum at 755 m in Saint-Pierre-Bellevue, Creuse, France; occupied 1st-4th century AD, excavated from 1980, monument historique 1988/1990, Mérimée PA00100186.
Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos: Greek UNESCO World Heritage site (1992) pairing the fortified ancient city of Samos with the sanctuary of Hera, featuring the 1,036 m Eupalinus tunnel and successive giant Ionic temples under Polycrates.
Queen's Crags Roman Quarry
Queen's Crags Roman Quarry (RIB 3331) is a scheduled sandstone quarry near Housesteads on Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland, dated by a 1960-discovered inscription naming centurions Saturninus, Rufinus, and optio Henoenus.
Rachelu
Rachelu (also "Rachel") is a village in Luncavița commune, Tulcea County, Romania, with about 1,030 residents, hosting a Roman quadriburgium fort of the Danube limes tied to Noviodunum, plus prehistoric, Roman, and medieval sites and a denarii hoard.
Ramista
Ramista (Remista), Roman mutatio (horse-change station) on the Poetovio–Mursa road in Pannonia, 9–10 Roman miles from Poetovio, placed at Formin, Slovenia; known from the Bordeaux Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana.
Redshaw Burn
Redshaw Burn: small Roman fortlet in Crawford parish, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, beside the Carlisle-to-Forth Roman road; discovered from the air in 1939, occupied 2nd/3rd centuries AD, scheduled monument SM3348.
Road from Barbare east to Ad fl. Tigrim
Road from Barbare east to Ad fl. Tigrim: a reconstructed late Roman road in northern Mesopotamia from Barbare (Mohammed Khan?) via Nisibis (Nusaybin) to Ad fl. Tigrim (Cizre), attested on the Tabula Peutingeriana and Barrington Atlas Map 89.
Road segment(s): Morlaix → Fanum Martis
Roman road segment in Armorica (Brittany, France) running from Morlaix toward Fanum Martis (Corseul), capital of the Coriosolites; Barrington Atlas sheet 7 C3-D3, Pleiades place 70976, based on Galliou 1983.
Roads: Tyrus → Paneas → Damascus
Roman road from Tyre (Tyrus) via Paneas/Banias (Caesarea Philippi) to Damascus, the northern transversal artery of Syria-Palaestina; attested by the Tabula Peutingeriana, an Aurelian milestone naming capita viae Tyrus and Paneas, and surviving pavement and bridges.
Roecliffe Fort
Roecliffe Fort is a Flavian Roman fort and vicus near Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, found by geophysical survey before the A1 upgrade, occupied from about AD 71 into the 80s, and succeeded by Aldborough.
Roman Agora of Athens
Roman Agora of Athens (Ρωμαϊκή Αγορά), also called the Agora of Caesar and Augustus: a 1st-century-BC Roman marketplace east of the Greek Agora, with the Gate of Athena Archegetis, Tower of the Winds, Vespasianae, and Fethiye Mosque; separate ticketed site.
Roman amphitheater at Al(l)ifae
Roman amphitheater of ancient Allifae at Alife, Campania (Anfiteatro romano di Alife): early 1st-century AD oval arena, 107 x 84 m, discovered by aerial photography in 1976, half still buried, demolished in the 11th/12th century.
Roman amphitheater at Alalie/Aleria
Roman amphitheater at Aléria (Aleria/Alalia), Corsica: a very small elliptical arena building, principal axis 29.60 m (100 Roman feet), built over pre-Roman rampart remains destroyed in 259 BC, excavated by Jean Jehasse.
Roman amphitheater at Amiternum
Roman amphitheater at Amiternum (anfiteatro romano di Amiternum): 1st-century AD brick amphitheater near San Vittorino, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, with 48 arches, seating roughly 5,000-6,000 for gladiatorial games and hunts; excavated 1880, restored 1996.
Roman amphitheater at Casinum
Roman amphitheater at Casinum, Cassino, Italy: elliptical 1st-century AD arena built by Ummidia Quadratilla, 85 by 69 m, about 4,500 seats, outside the ancient city walls.
Roman amphitheater at Interamnia Praetuttiorum
Roman amphitheater at Interamnia Praetuttiorum, Teramo, Italy: 74 x 56 m brick-and-concrete arena building, about 3,500 seats, explored 1937, partly quarried for the Duomo.
Roman amphitheater at Lixus
Roman amphitheater at Lixus: theatre-amphitheatre at Lixus, Larache, Mauretania Tingitana, Morocco; 1st-century theatre converted to an arena, cavea 55 m, arena 32 x 32.5 m; the only known Roman amphitheater in Morocco.
Roman amphitheater at Paestum
The Roman amphitheater at Paestum is a partially excavated amphitheater just northeast of the Forum at Paestum, Italy, first built around 50 BC and enlarged in the 1st century AD.
Roman amphitheater at Ptolemais/Barkes Limen
Roman amphitheater at Ptolemais/Barkes Limen, Tolmeita, Libya: rock-cut oval arena in the Cyrenaican Pentapolis city, 89 x 86 m exterior, 47.5 x 44.5 m arena, 2nd-3rd century AD, used for gladiatorial combat.
Roman amphitheater at Theveste
Roman amphitheater at Theveste (Tebessa, Algeria), legionary-era oval arena on the wadi Zarour; three building phases from ca. AD 75, ca. 83x70 m growing to ca. 94.8x81.5 m, seating about 7,300-14,200, later inhabited, fortified, and burned ca. AD 900.
Roman amphitheater at Volsinii
Roman amphitheater at Volsinii, the anfiteatro del Mercatello of Roman Volsinii at Bolsena, Italy, an imperial-period monument near the city walls, founded after 264 BC, now under excavation by the Bolsena Project since 2019.
Roman amphitheater of Col. Tarraco
Roman amphitheater of the colony of Tarraco (Amfiteatre de Tarragona), built in the first half of the 2nd century AD, 109 by 86 m, about 14,000 seats; later held Visigothic and Romanesque churches; part of UNESCO's Archaeological Ensemble of Tarraco.
Roman amphitheater of Saintes
Roman amphitheater of Saintes (Amphithéâtre gallo-romain de Saintes, les Arènes): Gallo-Roman amphitheater of Mediolanum Santonum, begun under Tiberius, completed c. 40 CE; 126 by 102 m, 12,000-15,000 seats, best preserved in western Gaul, classified since 1840, under restoration since 2017.
Roman amphitheater of Venusia
Roman amphitheater of Venusia, at Venosa (ancient Venusia), Basilicata: 1st-century AD elliptical amphitheater in the city's archaeological park, built in opus reticulatum with 2nd-century opus mixtum restorations, spoliated for the Chiesa Incompiuta, with new excavations in 2025-2026.
Roman amphitheatre, Charterhouse
Small Romano-British auxiliary amphitheatre near Charterhouse-on-Mendip, Somerset, serving the Roman lead mining settlement; smallest known amphitheatre in England, excavated by Gray in 1909 and 1938, scheduled monument 1006193.
Roman Aqueduct at Mytilene
Roman Aqueduct at Mytilene (Ρωμαϊκό υδραγωγείο Μυτιλήνης): 2nd-3rd century AD aqueduct on Lesbos carrying Mount Olympos water 26 km to Mytilene at 127,000 cubic meters daily; three-tiered marble bridge at Moria.
Roman bath at Alange
Roman bath at Alange (Termas Romanas de Alange): Roman medicinal bathhouse in Extremadura, Spain, with two domed circular chambers, 28 °C radon thermal water, National Monument in the 1930s, World Heritage with Mérida in 1993, still used for bathing.
Roman bath house, Callendar Park, Falkirk
Roman bath house, Callendar Park, Falkirk: remains on the East Burn tied to the Antonine Wall (built 142 AD) and Falkirk fort, within a 170-acre public park with Callendar House museum.
Roman camp, Seldom Seen
Roman camp, Seldom Seen (Roman camp, 290m north west of Seldom Seen) is a scheduled Roman temporary camp in Haydon, Northumberland, measuring about 89 by 77 m, beside the Stanegate road south of Hadrian's Wall.