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Obilonna

Obilonna (also Obilunnum, Obilinnum) is a Roman road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana in the Graian Alps, Savoie, France, usually identified with La Bâthie or Conflans on the Vienne to Darantasia road.

Olynthus, House A 11

Olynthus, House A 11: an irregularly planned Classical Greek house (ca. 432–348 BC) near the agora of Olynthus, Halkidiki, built against the west fortification wall, 17.7 × 21.3 m, with unspecialized rooms around a courtyard and no kitchen, andron, or pastas.

Onnum

Onnum (Hunnum), the Roman fort at Halton Chesters, Northumberland, on Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 21; unique L-shaped plan from a Severan western extension, about 1.75-2 ha, garrisoned by a part-mounted cohort then the Ala I Pannoniorum Sabiniana.

Oudenburg

Oudenburg (Aldenborg) Roman coastal fort, West Flanders, Belgium: five fort periods from the late 2nd to early 5th century AD, Saxon Shore castellum with stone fort of the 260s, reoccupied after 379/380, abandoned around 410.

Palatiolum

Palatiolum ("little palace") is a fortified late Roman residence at Pfalzel near Trier, built in the 4th century, about 65 x 56 m, later a nunnery founded by Adela around 700 and an archiepiscopal castle; distinct from a Bulgarian site of the same name.

Palazzo a Mare

Palazzo a Mare is a Roman imperial maritime villa on Capri's northern coast near Marina Grande, attributed to Augustus and modified by Tiberius; one of three recognizable Tiberian villas, now partly submerged and heavily damaged since the 18th century.

Parco delle Tombe di via Latina

Parco delle Tombe di via Latina (Tombe della Via Latina), Rome archaeological park on the third mile of the ancient Via Latina, established 1879, preserving the Barberini, Valeri, and Pancrazi tombs with frescoes and stucco.

Pen-Llwyn fort

Pen-Llwyn fort (NPRN 92323, SAM CD134) is a 2.7-hectare Flavian Roman auxiliary fort at Melindwr, Ceredigion, Wales, found as cropmarks in 1976, with triple ditches, turf rampart, wooden buildings, occupied to about AD 125-140.

Pharos of Portus Dubris

Roman lighthouse (pharos) at Dover Castle, Kent, serving the port of Portus Dubris; one of only three surviving Roman lighthouses, paired with a lost Western Heights tower and Boulogne's Tour d'Odre.

Phlorentiana

Phlorentiana, an ancient late-antique fort or tower of Dacia-Moesia at Barrington Atlas 21 E5, identified with Florentin, Bulgaria, known from Procopius, Buildings 4.4.3, and Beševliev 1970; distinct from Florentia (Florence).

Piazza d'Oro at Hadrian's Villa

Piazza d'Oro (Golden Square) is a second-phase (125–133 AD) garden-court complex at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, with an octagonal pumpkin-domed vestibule, cipollino and granite colonnades, and 1987–88 excavations revealing Roman planting pits and irrigation.

Pieve Socana

Pieve a Socana (Pieve di Sant'Antonino a Socana), Castel Focognano, Casentino, Tuscany: a Romanesque parish church built over an Etruscan sanctuary with a 5th-century BC sandstone sacrificial altar and temple remains.

Plattetombe of Waasmont

Plattetombe of Waasmont (Waasmontse Tom, Tombe Pepin), a huge Gallo-Roman tumulus of the 2nd century AD near Landen, Flemish Brabant, Belgium; over 70 m across, never excavated, protected since 1979.

Ploutonion at Hierapolis

Ploutonion at Hierapolis (Πλουτώνιον), Pluto's Gate: ancient sanctuary of Pluto and Kore at Hierapolis, Phrygia (Pamukkale, Turkey), built over a CO2-emitting cave on a seismic fault, revered as a gate to the underworld and identified in 2012 by a dedicatory inscription.

Poggio Gramignano Roman Villa

Poggio Gramignano is a hilltop Roman villa site near Lugnano in Teverina, Umbria, best known for a mid-fifth-century infant cemetery tied to a malaria epidemic.

Pompeiacum/Vernemetis

Pompeiacum/Vernemetis are the pair of ancient names recorded for places on the Garonne in Lot-et-Garonne, France; Vernemetis means "the great sanctuary" and Pompeiacum was the early medieval name of Le Mas-d'Agenais.

Pons Aufidi

Pons Aufidi (Ponte Aufidi), Roman bridge and road station on the Via Appia over the Ofanto river between Aquilonia and Venusia, listed on the Peutinger map and Antonine Itinerary; identified with either Ponte S. Venere or the Pietra dell'Oglio bridge.

Pons Campanus

Pons Campanus (Ad Ponte Campanu), a Roman bridge and mutatio on the Via Appia over the river Savo between Capua and Sinuessa, 9 miles from Sinuessa, mentioned by Horace and Pliny, located at la Marchesa.

Pont de Bornègre

Pont de Bornègre: Roman three-arch bridge on the Nîmes aqueduct, Gard, France, crossing the Bornègre ravine about 9 km upstream of the Pont du Gard; 17 m long, later converted to a road bridge.

Pont Flavien

Pont Flavien (Flavian Bridge), Roman bridge over the Touloubre at Saint-Chamas, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, built 12–10 BC on the Marseille–Arles road; single arch with triumphal arches at both ends, classified Monument historique in 1840.

Ponte Amato

Ponte Amato (Ponte del Fico) is a Roman single-arch road bridge on the Via Praenestina over the fosso Scalelle at Gallicano nel Lazio near Rome, built of lapis Gabinus, named for Count Amato di Segni, and restored after World War II damage.

Ponte Calamone

Ponte Calamone, also called Calamone Roman Bridge, is an Augustan-era (1st century BC) Roman bridge on the Via Flaminia near Narni, Umbria, crossing the Calamone creek; a two-arch opus quadratum bridge of which one arch, the central pier, and retaining walls survive after WWII brick restoration.

Ponte Ceccara

Ponte Ceccara (ponte di Terra, pons Cicala), a Republican Roman single-arch tufel bridge on the fosso di Passerano carrying the Via Praenestina at Zagarolo near Rome, late 2nd to early 1st century BC, later restored.

Ponte di Augusto

Ponte di Augusto (Bridge of Augustus), Roman arch bridge of about 27 BC near Narni, Umbria, carrying the Via Flaminia over the Nera; about 160-180 m long with four arches, of which one survives, built of travertine ashlar around cast lime concrete.

Ponte Sant'Antonio

Ponte Sant'Antonio, Roman aqueduct bridge of the Anio Novus over the Fosso dell'Acqua Raminga at San Gregorio da Sassola near Rome; 120 m long, central arch about 30 m high, restored in the 4th-5th centuries AD.

Porticus Absidata

Porticus Absidata, the apsidal or horseshoe-shaped portico behind Rome's Forum Transitorium (Forum of Nerva), built under Domitian as the grand entrance from the Subura to the imperial fora; also called porticus curva.

Portus Iulius

Portus Iulius (Portus Julius), Roman naval base built 37 BC by Agrippa for Octavian against Sextus Pompey, linking lakes Lucrino and Averno near Baiae; abandoned for Misenum by 30 BC, later a grain-trade hub, now submerged 5–10 m by bradyseism.

Posto villa

Posto villa is a small Roman villa rustica at Francolise, Caserta, Campania, in the ancient Ager Falernus near the Via Appia. Begun around 100 BC, excavated 1962–1965, and published by M. Aylwin Cotton in 1979.

Přešt'ovice

Přešt'ovice (Přešťovice), Germanic Roman-period settlement and 522-grave cremation cemetery near Strakonice, southern Bohemia, discovered 1932 by Bedřich Dubský; eponymous site of the Přešťovice-Friedenhain group.

Priscu Taberna

Priscu Taberna, also Priscum, an ancient road or coastal station in Cyrenaica on the Tabula Peutingeriana, between Ad Puteum and Corniclanu, tentatively identified with modern Tombia, Libya.