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Saint-Martin-le-Bas, Gruissan

Saint-Martin-le-Bas, Gruissan: Roman and medieval coastal settlement on the Île Saint-Martin in the Narbonnaise lagoon, a possible avant-port of ancient Narbonne, with a 2,500 m² courtyard complex, probable lighthouse, and cisterns.

Sanctuary of Metaneira

Sanctuary of Metaneira (hieron Metaneiras), a sanctuary near Eleusis in Attica on the road to Megara, known only from Pausanias 1.39.2; named for the Eleusinian queen, its precise location is undetermined.

Săpata de Jos

Săpata de Jos: Roman archaeological site in Argeș County, Romania, two adjoining castella on the Limes Transalutanus near Mârțești, excavated 1929–1930, with a hoard of 17 denarii and 27 antoniniani buried in the Carpic attack of AD 245.

Scoglietto

Scoglietto (Alberese, Grosseto, Tuscany): Roman rural sanctuary of Diana Umbronensis on a 20 m hilltop in Maremma Regional Park near the Ombrone mouth, occupied from the 2nd century BC to the 6th century AD, excavated 2009-2011.

Shadwell Roman Bathhouse

Shadwell Roman Bathhouse: a large mid-3rd-century AD Roman bath complex, also called the Shadwell baths, excavated 2002-2003 in Tower Hamlets, east London, and preserved in situ beneath the Eluna Apartments as scheduled monument 1456951.

Shakenoak

Shakenoak, also called Shakenoak Farm or Shakenoak Roman Villa, is a Roman villa site at Wilcote near Witney in Oxfordshire, England, occupied until about AD 750.

Small Roman Theater or Odeon at Sisak

Small Roman Theater or Odeon at Sisak: remains of a Roman odeon (small theater) found in 2020 under Sisak City Hall, Croatia, after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake; three rows of stone blocks, 20 m internal diameter, displayed under a glass floor.

So-called Caesareum of Cyrene

So-called Caesareum of Cyrene: Roman monumental complex at Cyrene, Libya, a Hellenistic gymnasium converted under Augustus to honor Julius Caesar, later the Flavian forum with basilica, restored under Hadrian.

Southwell

Southwell, Nottinghamshire: site of a large 1st-4th century Roman courtyard villa east of Southwell Minster, excavated by Charles Daniels in 1959, later an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon Christian cemetery, now Scheduled Monument 1003528.

Sparata

Sparata (Спарата) was a Roman roadside horse-changing station on the Via Militaris between Serdica and Philippopolis, identified with modern Vakarel, Bulgaria, first recorded in 333–334 AD.

St-Emilan

St-Emilan (Saint-Émiland, Saône-et-Loire, France): ancient Gallia Lugdunensis site with Gallo-Roman limestone quarries on its plateau; Barrington Atlas Map 18 entry, quarry no. 190 in the Oxford Roman Economy database.

St-Goussard

St-Goussard is the Pleiades gazetteer name for Saint-Goussaud, a village in the Creuse department of France whose hill, the Puy-de-Jouer, carries a Gallo-Roman temple and small theater.

Sub Romula

Sub Romula (Subromula), a Roman road station on the Via Appia between Aeclanum and Venusia in Hirpinian Italy, named for the Samnite city Romulea; recorded in the Antonine Itinerary, Peutinger Table, and Ravenna Cosmography, near Guardia Lombardi/Bisaccia.

Succosa

Succosa (Subcosa), a Roman road station on the Via Aurelia below the hill town of Cosa in Etruria, near modern Ansedonia/Orbetello; attested only in the Tabula Peutingeriana and Ravennate geographer, distinct from Rome's Sucusa.

Super *Tamari Fluvium

Super Tamari Fluvium, a Roman road station (statio) on the Tammaro river in Samnium, listed in the Antonine Itinerary (ItAnt 103.1, BAtlas 44 G3), traditionally identified near Santa Croce del Sannio, province of Benevento, Italy.

Tellegate

Tellegate, an ancient Roman road station (mutatio) on the Bergamo-Brescia road in northern Italy, listed in the 333 AD Bordeaux Itinerary 12 miles from Bergamo; identified with modern Telgate, province of Bergamo; Pleiades place 383796, BAtlas 39 F2.

Temple of Augustus et Livia

Temple of Augustus et Livia, also called Temple of Augustus and Livia, is a Corinthian Roman temple on the forum of Vienne, France, built under Augustus for Roma and Augustus, with Livia's name added after her 42 CE deification; preserved as a church and restored in the 19th century.

Terrace and altar of M. Nonius Balbus

Terrace and altar of M. Nonius Balbus, Herculaneum: marble funerary altar and statue of the senator and patron Marcus Nonius Balbus, erected by public decree at his cremation spot, found by Maiuri in 1942.

The Queen's Megaron (Palace of Minos)

Queen's Megaron, Palace of Knossos, Crete: Evans-named room in the palace's east wing (Domestic Quarter), findspot of the Dolphin Fresco, with disputed original placement and Evans's concrete reconstruction.

Tihău

Tihău, a village in Surduc commune, Sălaj County, Romania, site of a Roman auxiliary fort on the Someș in Dacia Porolissensis, garrisoned by cohors I Cannanefatium, with stone fort 129 by 144 m and UNESCO tentative-list status.

Tres Arbores

Tres Arbores, a Roman mutatio (horse-change station) in Gallia Aquitania on the Itinerarium Burdigalense between Bazas and Eauze, 5 leugae from Vasatas; site debated between Maillas and Goualade.

Tumulus of Xhendremael

Tumulus of Xhendremael, also called Li Tombe di Hên'mâl, is a Gallo-Roman burial mound on the Rue Tasson in Ans, Liège, Belgium, protected since 2012, linked to a Roman villa found in 1933.

Val-des-Nymphes

Val-des-Nymphes (Val des Nymphes) is a spring valley at La Garde-Adhémar, Drôme, site of a Gallo-Roman nymph cult and a Benedictine priory of Tournus first mentioned in 1059; its 12th-century Provençal Romanesque Notre-Dame chapel is a classified monument (1889), restored in 1991.

Via Ostiensis

The Via Ostiensis, Italian via Ostiense, was the Roman road from Rome to its port of Ostia, the principal land route for the grain shipments supplying the city.

Via Sebaste: Apollonia ↔ Antiochia ↔ Neapolis

Via Sebaste, the Augustan Roman road of Pisidia (6 BCE, governor Cornutus Arruntius Aquila), ran Perge–Döşeme pass–Comama–Apollonia–Pisidian Antioch, caput viae, with an eastern arm to Iconium and Lystra; a 6–8 m wheeled highway.

Via Sublacensis

Via Sublacensis, a Roman branch road of the Via Valeria up the Anio valley to Sublaqueum (Subiaco), first paved under Nero to serve his villa; source point of the Anio Novus aqueduct at its 38th milestone.

Vinovia

Vinovia, also recorded as Vinovium, is the Roman name for the Roman fort and settlement at Binchester, County Durham, established around 80 AD on Dere Street.

Winterton

Winterton Roman Villa, North Lincolnshire, England; also Winterton village site; large Romano-British villa compound with Orpheus mosaic, hypocaust, excavated 1958-1967 by the Ministry of Public Building and Works under threat of opencast ironstone mining.