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Caput Tyrsi
Caput Tyrsi (Caput Thyrsi), a Roman-era road station at modern Buddusò, Sardinia, near the source of the Thyrsos river; listed in the Antonine Itinerary and Barrington Atlas 48 B2, distinct from the Black Sea station Trissa/Tirizis.
Casale dell’Infernaccio
Casale dell'Infernaccio is a locality in Magliana Vecchia, Rome, site of a Roman villa with baths found in 1976, with fish frescoes and a possible fishpond; also a Pleistocene conglomerate formation.
Centenarium Aqua Viva
Centenarium Aqua Viva (Oued Naima, near M'doukal, Algeria): a Diocletianic Roman frontier fort in Numidia, built 303 AD, 86.80 × 85.90 m, dated by a Latin building inscription naming Valerius Alexander and Valerius Ingenuus.
Chaussée Jules César
Chaussée Jules César, Roman road from Lutetia (Paris) to Rotomagus (Rouen) via Pontoise across the Vexin français, built from the first quarter of the 1st century AD, used to the 3rd century, about 190 km to the Channel at Harfleur; name misattributed to Caesar.
Colombarone
Colombarone is an archaeological site in Pesaro, Italy, on the ancient Via Flaminia, where excavations by the University of Bologna uncovered a late Roman villa, later an early medieval basilica.
Contra Florentiam
Contra Florentiam, burgus contra Florentiam, late Roman bridgehead fort at Dunafalva, Hungary, opposite Lugio/Florentia (Dunaszekcső) on the Pannonian Danube limes; garrisoned by equites sagittarii per the Notitia Dignitatum, built late 3rd/4th century, abandoned early 5th century.
Coombe Crag Roman Quarry
Coombe Crag Roman Quarry (Combcrag Wood, near Birdoswald, Hadrian's Wall, Cumbria): a scheduled Roman sandstone quarry with seven Roman quarry-face inscriptions (RIB 1946–1952) plus one forgery, used AD 122–138 and later for Wall building and repairs.
Corniculani
Corniculani is a Roman road station named on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Neronia and Hadriani on the Altinum-Ravenna route, possibly read Cornicula iii; a milestone from modern Codigoro attests T. Annius and 250 Roman miles.
Crixia
Crixia, a Roman mansio in Liguria on the road from Aquae Statiellae to Vada Sabatia, listed in the Antonine Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana and identified with Piana Crixia, Savona.
Crypta Neapolitana
Crypta Neapolitana, also Grotta di Posillipo: a roughly 700 m Roman road tunnel through Posillipo hill, Naples, built around 37 BCE by Cocceius to link Naples with Pozzuoli; in road use until 1885.
Danielsberg
Danielsberg, a cone-shaped hill near Kolbnitz in Carinthia's Mölltal, Austria, settled for about 6,000 years, holds a Neolithic cup-marked stone, a Roman Hercules temple inscription, and a 1127 Romanesque church.
Dascusa
Dascusa, a Roman fort on the Euphrates in Cappadocia, listed in the Antonine Itinerary 50 Roman miles from Melitene; founded under Claudius, it was among the earliest garrisons of Rome's Euphrates frontier.
Diktynnaion
Diktynnaion (Δικτυνναῖον), main sanctuary of the Cretan goddess Diktynna at Menies bay on the Rodopou peninsula, western Crete. Founded per Herodotus by Samians c. 524-519 BCE, rebuilt under Hadrian, excavated 1942.
Eaton House Fort
Eaton House Fort, also called Eaton House Roman Fort, is a Roman auxiliary fort near Pennocrucium, Staffordshire, about 50 m south of Watling Street; almost square at about 150 m per side, double-ditched, identified in 1965 and scheduled in 1973.
Ecclesiasterion (Odeion) at Messene
Ecclesiasterion (Odeion) of Ancient Messene, also Ekklesiasterion: small theater-like assembly and performance hall in the Asclepieion, built late 3rd c. BC, 9.70 m orchestra, 21 m stage, restored 1997-2004, still hosting events.
Etosi
Etosi is an ancient place in Greece, cited as BAtlas 59 C2 in the Barrington Atlas, recorded in Pleiades (ID 579929) and DARE at 38.005234, 23.958426, dated −330 to −30, place type unknown.
Eulbach
Eulbach (Kastell Eulbach) is a small Roman numerus fort on the older Odenwald line of the Neckar-Odenwald-Limes near Michelstadt, Hesse, about 70 x 78 m, garrisoned until the frontier moved east around 159 AD, now within the Eulbacher Park.
Fabrateria Nova amphitheater
Fabrateria Nova amphitheater: Roman amphitheater at the colony of Fabrateria Nova (La Civita, San Giovanni Incarico, Frosinone, Italy), founded 124 BC after Fregellae's destruction. Measures 70 x 57 m, two axial entrances, probably wooden seating, unusually large for the small town.
Faversham Roman villa
Faversham Roman villa: winged corridor villa in Faversham, Kent, exposed in 1965 under Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School playing fields, occupied c. AD 70 to late 3rd century, with hypocaust, mosaic, and Iron Age farmstead beneath; Scheduled Monument 1011804.
Flaviana
Flaviana, also Flaviana Castra, a Roman fort and fleet station in Scythia Minor (Dobrudja, Romania), usually identified with Rasova-Pescărie; Trajanic Classis Flavia Moesica statio of 106 AD, rebuilt under Constantine, garrisoned by milites nauclarii per Notitia Dignitatum.
Fountain of Anna Perenna
Fountain of Anna Perenna (Fonte di Anna Perenna): Roman spring sanctuary at Piazza Euclide, Rome, found in 1999; dedicated to Anna Perenna's nymphs, later used for magic, with defixiones, wax figurines, and a copper potion pot.
Fundus (Dic)itanus
Fundus (Dic)itanus, also Fundus Dicitanus, is an ancient Roman villa-estate in northern Tunisia, Barrington Atlas 33 F1, identified with Henchir-Sidi Salah, attested 30 BC to AD 640.
Glava Panega
Glava Panega (Глава Панега) is one of Bulgaria's largest karst springs, source of the Zlatna Panega river near Lukovit, and the site of a 2nd-4th century Roman sanctuary of Asclepius syncretized with the Thracian Horseman.
Gremoulias ancient sanctuary
Gremoulias ancient sanctuary: an Arcadian sanctuary on the Gremoulias saddle 3.5 km NE of Kalavryta, with an Archaic limestone temple overlain by a Doric poros temple (cella 6.60 m wide); deity unidentified, cult from the Geometric period.
Grimscar Roman tilery (United Kingdom)
Grimscar (Grimescar) Roman tilery, a scheduled monument near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire: a first/early second-century AD military tile and pottery works run by the Fourth Cohort of the Breuci, supplying Slack Roman fort.
Guiry-Gadancourt
Guiry-Gadancourt: Gallo-Roman villa at Les Terres Noires, Guiry and Gadancourt communes, Vexin, France; excavated 1955-1960 by the Groupe Archéologique du Camping Club de France; Building II about 60 m long with baths and hypocaust.
Halberg Mithraeum
Halberg Mithraeum (Heidenkapelle): Roman Mithras sanctuary in a natural sandstone cave on the Halberg hill, Saarbrücken, Germany, used from the mid-3rd to late 4th century AD, excavated by Karl Klein in 1921 and later reconstructed.
Hasta
Hasta (Asta): name of two Roman road stations on the Tabula Peutingeriana, one on the Via Aurelia at Alberese in Etruria and one on the Ligurian coast near Voltri west of Genoa; also the ancient name of Asti.
Hera temple
Hera temple: Greek temples dedicated to Hera, notably the Heraion at Olympia (early Doric, wooden-column tradition challenged in 2016), Metaponto's Temple A and Tavole Palatine, and the two Hera temples at Paestum.
Inlăceni
Inlăceni (Énlaka), Harghita County, Romania: Roman auxiliary fort, vicus, and military baths on the eastern limes of Dacia. Earth-and-timber fort of 140 × 142 m under Trajan; stone fort built AD 149 by cohors VIII Raetorum; towers added under Caracalla; UNESCO Dacian Limes component.