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Ad birium (Ad Birium)

Maiorana

Italy

Toponym with Symbol

5B1

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A Twin Towers

ad Bivium

Ad Bivium (43 D3 / 44 C2)

Ad birium

Ad birium (A,I,4)

Bribila (p. 71.40)

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Miller, Itineraria, Sp. 328:
Ad birium, Bribilia (Ra), Bribila (Gu); entweder verschrieben statt Ad Bivium oder wahrscheinlicher Birium statt Trerum (St), rechter Nebenfluß des Liris, j. Sacco (Mommsen CIL X 695 und 696 setzt ständig - 5 mal - Bivium, ohne zu erwähnen, daß die Ta Ad birium hat); j. östlich von Valmontone am Übergang über den Sacco. 2 Milien von Birium gegen Anagni „Ad cryptas S. Hilarii“ wurde 1 Meilenstein gefunden mit Entfernung [X]XXIIII: CIL 6884. In Signia 1 Meilenstein ohne Entfernung (6995). 10. Dazwischen seitlich Signium (Ra), sonst Signia; j. Segni. Iss: CIL X.

Datierung (Barrington):
Ad Bivium – Archaic/Classical/Hellenistic/Roman/Late Antique (Quilici 1982, 120-24)

RE:
ad Bivium, in Latium, am Treffpunkt der Via latina und Labicana (Tab. Peut.), in der Nähe des heutigen Valmontone. Vgl. Mommsen CIL X p. 695f.
[Hülsen.]

Ad Bivium
A junction of the Latina and the Labicana has been located near the catacombs Sant`Ilario and the Colle Maiorana, three miles east of Valmontone and (Ashby, 1902: 216, 279-80; Ashby, 1927: 151; Quilici, 1982: 120-1; Quilici, 204). The road east followed the foot of the Colle Cisterna to an ancient bridge the Sacco near Torre Piombinara, and continued past Colleferro, roughly following the line of the Casilina (Figs 1-2). [8: From Sant`Ilario to the Colli San Pietro: Carpino, Giuliani and Luttazzi, 1997: 56; Valenti, 1998: 149. On remains of the ancient road on the stretch west of Osteria della Fontana: 1969: 110. In general, cf. Ashby (1902: 219, 280-1; 1910: 422-3), who observed much Capmartin de Chaupy (1769)] Osteria della Fontana, south of Anagnia, has been identified securely with Compitum Anagninum. [9: Literatur The distance from Sant’Ilario to Osteria della Fontana matches the ten miles from “Ad Birium” to “Conpito Anagnino” on the Peutinger Table, and the distance to Ferentinum east of Ostera della Fontana corresponds with theeight miles given by the Antonine Itinerary [10: In fact, two parallel roads ran in tandem from Compitum Anagninum to Ferentinum. See Mazzolani, 1969: 43, 48 fig. 26]. The junction at Sant’Ilario can be identified therefore with Ad Bivium. [11: Literatur]. The Republican terraced sanctuary recently discovered at Colle Noce, and identified by the excavators as the site of the battle between Sulla and the Younger Marius at Sacriportus in 82 BC, stood half-way between Ad Bivium and Compitum Anagninum, south of the road (Reggiani and Cifarelli, 2001). Ashby traced the course of the Via Labicana west of Sant’Ilario for seven miles: over the Colle Salcione (its name deriving from its paving of selce); between the Colle Pastina and the Colle delle Mura (where Holstenius located the monasterium dirutum of Santa Maria in Silice, its epithet referring to the Roman road); then over the Colle della Strada (again, its name referring to the ancient road), and west to Colle Tre Are (Fig. 2) (Ashby, 1902: 275-9). [12: Compare earlier accounts [Literatur] Clear traces of the ancient road are still visible between the 27th. Mile and Sant Ilario at the 30th Mile, chiefly through the presence of isolated basalt blocks on the roadside. The pristine stretch of road at the 29th Mile is shown below, in Fig.12.] Ashby also traced the Via Latina west of Sant`Ilario over Colle Maiorana, passing north of Artena towards Colle dei Fiori, Fontanile delle Macere and the pass of Algidus (Ashby, 1902: 280; 1910: 416-22).[13: Cf. Quilici (1982: 110-112), who documented changes made with the modernization of the road west of Artena in the 1960s.] Only in the area north of modern Artena is the course of the Via Latina debated (Fig.3).
Ashby’s road passes close to Artena and coincides in part with the modern Via Latina, though he mentioned the possibility that the ancient road passed through the Valle Materna to the north (Ashby, 1902: 279f; Luttazzi, 1996, 94-95). Recent excavations published by Quilici revealed a road running on a four mile east-west axis between Ashbys road and the Valle Materna. Two fourth-century milestones discovered near Artena on either side of Quilicis road make a strong case for its identification with the Latina (Quilici, 1991: 197 fig 2, 199-203). [14: Adopted on the Barrington Atlas, map 43. On the milestones see below n. 38.] Quilici has argued furthermore that the long straight line of the Latina was flanked by two parallel roads, one identified with part of Ashbys road in the south, the other placed north of the Valle Materna. The three parallel roads, each separated by 570 m (16 actus), defined a system of centuriation per strigas that was laid out in around 300 BC (Quilici, 1991: 204-7) [15: Further traces of this system of centuriation have been identified on Colle Pellicione, on the Via Labicana southeast of Valmontone. See Bellini and Pracchia, 1998: 219.] This land division took place at the same time as the foundation of a short-lived Roman colony at Civita die Artena, perched on the northernmost outcrop of the Monti Lepini; by the early second century BC this mountain-top site overlooking the Via Latina had been abandoned (Quilici, 1991: 216) [16 The chronology of decline was outlined by Lambrechts (1989, 15-16) but note that Quilici (1982: 161-166) dated the process of abandonment to the late second or early first century.] The medieval town, known as Monte Fortino until 1873, is built against the steep slopes of the hill. Its name was changed in the belief or desire that this was the Volscian city of Artena, yet it is safe to say that the ancient name of the Civita di Artena is unknown (Lambrechts, 1989: 13-15). The distance from Sant`Ilario to Rome as traced by Ashby is just under 30 miles on the Labicana and just over 30 miles on the Latina (Ashby, 1902: 216,280). The two roads were roughly equal in length, yet the Antonine Itinerary implies that the Latina was five miles longer. It was 25 miles from Ad Pictas to Rome on the Labicana, but 30 miles on the Latina [17: The TP confirms that Ad Pictas stood at the 25th Mile of the Labicana, and Strabo gives a distance of 210 stades or 26 miles on the Latina]. This problem can be resolved by emending the distance from Roboraria to Ad Pictas on the Antonine Itinerary from xvii to xii (Lugli, 1957b: 427; cf. Ashby 1902: 218). Thus the disctance to Rome was 25 miles from Ad Pictas and 30 miles from Ad Bivium on both the Labicana and Latina.

Miller, Itineraria, Sp. 328;

Hülsen, Christian, ad Bivium, in: RE III.1 (1897), Sp. 551;

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