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Antro delle Sorti
Antro delle Sorti (Cave of the Lots), Palestrina, ancient Praeneste: a rock-cut grotto on the forum's west side, paved with the late 2nd-century BC Fish Mosaic seabed; once misidentified as the oracle's sortes repository, likely a nymphaeum or Isis sanctuary.
Aphrodision
Aphrodision (Ἀφροδίσιον) means a sanctuary of Aphrodite and names an unexcavated Hellenistic-to-Byzantine town on Cyprus's north coast near Akanthou, mentioned by Strabo and Ptolemy, distinct from Aphrodisias in Caria.
Aphrodite sanctuary at Dafni
The Aphrodite sanctuary at Dafni (Ιερό Αφροδίτης στο Δαφνί) is an open-air sanctuary of Aphrodite on the Sacred Way between Athens and Eleusis, used from the classical to the Roman period.
Apollo Alaeus (temple)
Temple of Apollo Alaeus, a sanctuary of Apollo near Punta Alice at Crimisa (Ciro), Calabria, South Italy; foundation credited to Philoctetes, who dedicated his bow; Barrington Atlas 46 F3.
Apollo Asgelatos (temple)
The temple of Apollo Asgelatos was an ancient Greek temple on the Cycladic island of Anafi, bearing an epithet found nowhere else and later overlaid by a monastery.
Apollo Cynneius
Apollo Cynneius (Ἀπόλλων Κύννειος, Kynneios): a cult of Apollo with a sanctuary near Temnos in Aiolis destroyed by Prusias II in 155 BCE (Polybius 32.15.12), plus an Athenian cult with the Kynnidai priesthood; site unlocated, Barrington Atlas 56 E4.
Apollo Erethimios, T.
Apollo Erethimios, T. (ἱερον Ἀπόλλωνος Ἐρεθιμίου): ancient sanctuary and Doric temple of c. 400 BC near Theologos, Rhodes, chief sanctuary of Ialysos, with the Great Erethimia festival and an Early Christian basilica overlay.
Apollo Hylates, T.
Apollo Hylates, T. (Ἀπόλλων Ὑλάτης) is the ancient sanctuary of Apollo Hylates, "of the woodland", protector of Kourion, Cyprus; worshipped 8th century BC to 4th century AD, rebuilt under Trajan, ruined by the 365 AD earthquake.
Apollo Korythos Sanctuary
Apollo Korythos Sanctuary (Ιερό Απόλλωνα Κορύθου), ancient Greek sanctuary at Agios Andreas, Longa, Messenia; founded 8th century BC, used to late Roman times; excavated by Versakis 1915; Laconian-style bronze finds.
Apollo Maleatas, T.
Apollo Maleatas (Ἀπόλλων Μαλεάτας), 'the one of Malos', is the Epidaurian healing form of Apollo whose sanctuary on Mt Kynortion above Epidaurus predates the Asklepieion, with cult from the 8th century BC and a Classical temple of 380 BC.
Apollo Nasiotas, T.
Apollo Nasiotas is the sanctuary of Apollo, meaning "the Islander," the principal sanctuary of the ancient West Locrian town of Chaleion, identified with modern Galaxidi, Greece.
Apollo-Grannus-Tempel
The Apollo-Grannus-Tempel is a Roman temple in Faimingen, Bavaria, Germany, dedicated to the Gallo-Roman healing god Apollo Grannus, among the most important sanctuaries north of the Alps.
Apollo, Aedes
Apollo, Aedes (aedes Apollinis): the Temple of Apollo Medicus, later Apollo Sosianus, in Rome's Campus Martius, vowed 433 BC after a plague, rebuilt by C. Sosius, Rome's only Apollo temple until 28 BC.
Apollonas (quarry)
Apollonas quarry: ancient marble quarry on Naxos' northeastern tip, one of the island's two ancient quarries with Melanes, home of the unfinished 10.45 m Archaic Kouros of Apollonas and the Apollo sacred-precinct inscription.
Appiaria
Appiaria (Apiaria), Roman castellum and town on the Danube in Moesia Inferior near Ryahovo, Bulgaria; garrisoned by ala I Gallorum Atectorigiana from about AD 76, a bishopric, last mentioned in 587 before the Avar conquest.
Aqua Viva (Italy)
Aqua Viva (Aqua uiua), Roman mutatio/mansio on the Via Flaminia in Etruria between Rubrae and Ocriculum near Monte Soracte, modern Acquaviva by the Tiber; attested in the Itinerarium Burdigalense and Tabula Peutingeriana; distinct from the Pannonian Aqua Viva near Ptuj.
Aquae *Arnemetiae
Aquae Arnemetiae, the Roman name for Buxton, Derbyshire, was a small spa town built around thermal springs sacred to the goddess Arnemetia; one of only two Aquae towns in Roman Britain, with baths, a shrine, and 232 votive coins.
Aquae Apollinares Novae
Aquae Apollinares Novae: Roman thermal spa and sanctuary of Apollo at Vicarello on Lake Bracciano, north of Rome, twin of Aquae Apollinares Veteres (Stigliano); known from the Peutinger map, the 1852 Vicarello silver goblets, and its link to the Aqua Traiana.
Aquae Bormonis
Aquae Bormonis (Aquis Bormonis), a thermal station of Roman Gaul on the Tabula Peutingeriana, named for the healing god Borvo; identified with Bourbon-l'Archambault or Bourbon-Lancy, with Borvo-Damona votive inscriptions.
Aquae Caeretanae
Aquae Caeretanae was a Roman therapeutic spa near Caere, modern Cerveteri, its sulfur springs more frequented in antiquity than the city itself, rediscovered in 1986 near Sasso.
Aquae Calidae (Bulgaria)
Aquae Calidae (Therma, Thermopolis), ancient hot-springs city and spa in Burgas's Vetren district, Bulgaria; Thracian Sanctuary of the Three Nymphs, Roman thermae from Nero–Vespasian, Justinian fortress wall, medieval baths burned 1206, Ottoman bath of Suleiman the Magnificent, excavated since 2008.
Aquae Celenae
Aquae Celenae (Aquis Celenis) was a Roman thermal settlement in Gallaecia, capital of the Celeni, identified with Caldas de Reis, Pontevedra; a mansio on via XIX with Edovius inscriptions and 45-50 °C springs.
Aquae Convenarum
Aquae Convenarum, "waters of the Convenae", a Roman thermal station in Gaul on the Tabula Peutingeriana (Aquis Convenarum, 457,7), Barrington Atlas 25 F2, identified with Bagnères-de-Bigorre or Capvern in the French Pyrenees.
Aquae Dacicae
Aquae Dacicae (Aquis Dacicis), Roman thermal road station in Mauretania Tingitana, Morocco, not Dacia; identified with Sidi Moulay Yakoub near Volubilis; named for settled Dacians.
Aquae Flavianae
Aquae Flavianae (Hammam Essalihine, El Hamma) is a Roman thermal spa in Numidia, 6 km west of Khenchela, Algeria, built in 76 AD, restored in 208 by Legio III Augusta, with circular and rectangular pools still in use. Distinct from Aquae Flaviae, Chaves, Portugal.
Aquae Helveticae
Aquae Helveticae was a Roman vicus and mineral spa at modern Baden, Aargau, Switzerland, on 47 °C thermal springs by the Limmat. First named by Tacitus, burned by Legio XXI in 69 AD, rebuilt in stone, and linked to Vindonissa.
Aquae Iasae
Aquae Iasae, Roman thermal spa at Varaždinske Toplice, Croatia, in Pannonia Superior, 1st–4th century AD; 58 °C sulphur spring, 6,000 m² public complex, sanctuary, nymph cults, Constantine rebuilding.
Aquae Neri/*Neriomagus
Aquae Neri/Neriomagus, the ancient name of Néris-les-Bains (Allier, France), a Gallo-Roman vicus of the Bituriges Cubi famed for 53°C thermal springs, two Roman bath complexes, an amphitheater, and ongoing excavations.
Aquae Onesiorum
Aquae Onesiorum, also known as the Onesiorum Thermae, is an ancient thermal site recorded by Strabo and identified with Bagnères-de-Luchon in Haute-Garonne, France, at the confluence of the One and the Pique.
Aquae Segestanae
Aquae Segestanae (sive Pincianae), Roman thermal spa and road station in Segesta's territory, western Sicily, on the via Valeria; identified with Ponte Bagni, inhabited into the 8th-10th centuries AD.