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Strabo |
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Title |
Geography, book V, 1.6 |
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Notes |
Reggio Emilia is indicated as a minor centre of the Insubrian Gauls, together with Brescia, Mantova and Como (but it seems to be a mistake). |
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Author |
Strabo |
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Title |
Geography , book V, 1.11 |
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Notes |
Reggio Emilia is one of the minor centres of the Cispadana. |
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Author |
Claudius Ptolomaeus |
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Title |
Geography, book III, 1.46 |
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Notes |
Position of the colony of Reggio Emilia: 32' 50'', 43'50'' |
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Author |
Pliny the Elder |
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Title |
Naturalis Historia, book III, 116 |
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Notes |
Regium of Lepidus is an oppidum, a fortified centre of the regio VIII (I cent. A.D.). |
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Author |
Festus |
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Title |
Epitoma operis de verborum significatu Verrii Flacci, 332 |
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It is the name of two municipia, one of which is situated in the Cisalpine Gaul, where formerly the Forum of Lepidus was located. |
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Author |
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Title |
Imperatoris Antonini Augusti itineraria provinciarum et maritimum, 99.3 |
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Notes |
Reggio Emilia is on the route from Milan to Sicily, between Parma and Modena. |
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Author |
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Title |
Imperatoris Antonini Augusti itineraria provinciarum et maritimum, 127.4 |
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Reggio Emilia is on the route from Rome to Milan, between Modena and Parma. |
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Author |
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Title |
Imperatoris Antonini Augusti itineraria provinciarum et maritimum, 283.5 |
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Reggio Emilia is is on the route from Cremona to Bologna, between Brescello and Modena. |
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Author |
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Title |
Imperatoris Antonini Augusti itineraria provinciarum et maritimum, 287.7 |
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Reggio Emilia is on the route from Rimini to Tortona, between Modena and Tannetum. |
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Author |
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Title |
Itinerarium Burdigalense, 616.11 |
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Reggio Emilia is on the route from Rome to Milan, between the bridge on the Secchia river and Tannetum’s station of change. |
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Author |
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Title |
Tabula Peutingeriana, segment III.4 |
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Reggio Emilia is located on the via Aemilia between Modena and Tannetum. |
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Author |
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Title |
Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia, 4.33=272 |
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Notes |
Reggio Emilia is on the route from Tortona to Roma, between Tannetum and Modena. |
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Author |
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Title |
De provinciis Italiae seu Catalogus provinciarum Italiae, 8 |
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Notes |
The eighth Italian province (among sixteen) is Aemilia; it has several rich towns among which Reggio Emilia. |
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Author |
Guy of Ravenna |
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Title |
Geographica, 37=477 |
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Notes |
Reggio Emilia is on the route from Tortona to Rome, between Tannetum and Modena. |
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Author |
Livy |
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Title |
Ab Urbe condita, book XXXIX, 2.1-2 |
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Notes |
The consul Caius Flamininius (minor) defeats the Friniates Ligurians and gains their surrender (187 B.C.). |
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Author |
Livy |
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Title |
Ab Urbe condita, book XL, 38.1-4 |
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Notes |
The consul Marcus Baebius Tamphilus organizes the deportation of 40.000 Apuanian Ligurians to Sannio from their original seats on the Apuanian Alps (181 B.C.). |
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Author |
Livy |
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Title |
Ab Urbe condita, book XLI, 19.2-3 |
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The Senate orders some petitions to favour the action against the Gauls and the Ligurians who had rebelled in the Cisalpine Gaul; therefore the revolt is repressed with little efforts (175 B.C.). |
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Author |
Cicero |
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Title |
Ad familiares, XII, 5.2 |
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Notes |
Cicero relates Cassius Brutus’ difficult situation, but he is optimistic since he thinks that the Gauls are mostly loyal, although some towns - as Reggio Emilia - have sided with Marcus Antonius (43 B.C.). |
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Author |
Cicero |
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Title |
Ad familiares, XI, 9 titulus |
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Notes |
Decimus Junius Brutus writes to the Author who is in Reggio Emilia and informs him about the situation after the clash against Marcus Antonius (43 B.C.). |
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Author |
Tacitus |
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Title |
Historiae, book II, 50 |
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Notes |
A bird of an unknown species perches on a lucum, i.e. a sacred wood, near Reggio Emilia and disappears only after Othon’s death (69 A.D.). |
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Author |
Ambrose |
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Title |
Epistolae, book II, 8 |
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Notes |
While he is trying t give comfort to a friend, the Author recalls the landscapes of Emilia and the Apennines with all their towns, villages and fields, by that time destroyed and abandoned. Reggio Emilia is one of the towns in decadence (387 A.D.) |
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Author |
Horosius |
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Title |
Historiarum adversum paganos, book V, 22.17 |
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The general Gnaeus Pompeus kills Marcus Junus Brutus near Reggio Emilia, thus repressing Lutatius Catulus’ rebellion (78 B.C.). |
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Author |
Ammianus Marcellinus |
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Title |
Rerum gestarum libri qui supersunt, book XXXI, 9.4 |
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After having defeated the Goths and the Taifali in Thrace, the general Frigeridus allows them to settle in the depopulated country lands of Modena, Reggio and Parma (377 A.D.). |
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Type of object |
Silver inscribed vase (CIL XI, 3281-3284) |
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Type of information |
Inscription (Itinerarium Gaditanum) (I cent. A.D.) |
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Place of preservation |
Rome, National Roman Museum |
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Notes |
It is better known as itinerarium Gaditanum or Vicarello’s vase, after the name of the village situated near Bracciano’s lake, where it was brought to light; the parts of the text mentioning Reggio Emilia are the following:
CIL XI 3281: (…) / PARMAM (...) / LEPIDVMREGIVM XVIII / MVTINAM XVII / (...)
Translation: Parma (...), Reggio of Lepidus at eighteen miles, Modena at seventeen miles.
CIL XI 3282: (…) / PARMA (...) / REGIO LEPIDI XVIII / MVTINA XVII / (...)
Translation: Parma (...), Reggio of Lepidus at eighteen miles, Modena at seventeen miles.
CIL XI 3283: (…) / PARMA (...) / LEPIDOREGIO XVIII / MVTINA XVII / (...)
Translation: Parma (...), Reggio of Lepidus at eighteen miles, Modena at seventeen miles.
CIL XI 3284: (…) / PARMA (...) / REGIO XVIII / MVTINA XVII / (...)
Translation: Parma (...), Reggio of Lepidus at eighteen miles, Modena at seventeen miles. |
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Type of object |
Inscription (AE 1946, 210) |
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Type of information |
Funerary inscription (I-II A.D.) |
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Notes |
C(aio) POMPONIO / RVFI LIB(erto) / FELICI / VI VIR(o) AVG(ustali) / CLAVD(iali) / LANARI(i) PECT(inarii) / ET CARMIN(atores) / OB MERITA EIVS / QVOD TESTAMENTO / SVO LEGAVERIT / EIVS NON SVFFICIENTIB(us) / SIBI DATIONES ET / VESTIARIVM QVOQ(ue) / ET SI QVI(s) DEFVNCTVS / ESSET CERTA SVMMA / FVNERARETVR Translation: To Caius Pomponius Felix, Rufus’ freedman, augustal and claudial sevir, the workers, the combers and wool carders for his merits, since by his testament he left to those that cannot afford it, donations and clothes and, to those who died, a sum of money for their funeral ceremonies. |
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Type of object |
Inscription (AE 1996, 668) |
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Type of information |
Celebrating inscription (I sec. A.D.) |
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...]O CL[...] / [...c]OS PATR(ono) [... / ...] QVOD VIVOS / [...]S REI PVBLIC(ae) / [...]VS EST / [d(ecreto)] D(ecurionum) Translation: To (...) patron, alive (...) to the Republic (of Reggio?) by the decurions’ decree |
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Type of object |
Inscription (AE 1990, 669) |
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Type of information |
Funerary inscription (41/54 A.D..) |
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C]LAVDIO / [A]VG(usto) CO(n)S(uli) / [p]ATRONO Translation: To Claudius Augustus consul and patron. |
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Type of object |
Inscription (CIL XI, 960) |
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Type of information |
Funerary inscription (I-II cent. A.D.) |
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Place of preservation |
Reggio Emilia |
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Q(uinto) VENNONIO / FELICI IIIIII VIRO / ET HABILI LIB(erto) / IN AGR(o) P(edes) XV IN FR(onte) P(edes) XV Translation: To Quintus Vennonius Felix, sevir and to Habilis freedman, fifteen feet in depth, fifteen feet on the front. |
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Type of object |
Inscription (CIL XI, 969) |
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Type of information |
Funerary inscription (beginning of I cent. A.D.) |
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Notes |
...]XI[...] / T(ito) POMPONIO T(iti) F(ilio) POL(lia) / PETRAE / AEDIL(i) II VIRO PRAEF(ecto) FABR(um) IIII / TRIB(uno) MILIT(um) LEG(ionis) X GEMIN(ae) / PRAEF(ecto) EQVITVM PRAEF(ecto) / GERMANICI CAESARIS II VIRO / QVINQ(uennali) Q(ui) D(onum) D(edit) / PATRONO Translation: Eleven (??) to Titus Pomponius Petrus, Titus’ son, of the Pollia tribe, aedile, duovirus, prefect of the blacksmiths for four times, tribune of the soldiers of the tenth twin legion, prefect of the cavalrymen, prefect of Germanicus Caesar, to the quinquennial duovirus patron who made the donation. |
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Type of object |
Inscription (CIL XI, 970) |
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Type of information |
Funerary inscription (II cent. A.D.) |
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IMP(eratori) CAES(ari) M(arco) AVRELIO / [[[Commodo]]] ANTONINO AVG(usto) PIO / FELICE VI M(arco) PETRONIO SEPTIMI/ANO CO(n)S(ulibus) / X KAL(endas) APRIL(es) IN TEMPLO COLLEGI(i) FABRVM / ET CENTONARIORVM REGIENSIVM / QVOD REFERENTIB(us) P(ublio) SAENIO MARCELLINO ET C(aio) AVFIDIO / DIALOGO QVAESTORIBVS V(erba) F(ecerunt) / TVTILIVM IVLIANVM VIRVM ET VITA ET MODESTIA ET / INGENTIA VERECVNDA ORNATVM ET LIBERALEM / OPORTERE COLLEGI(i) NOSTRI PATRONVM COOPTARI VT / SIT CETERIS EXEMPLO IVDICI(i) NOSTRI TESTIMONIVM / QV(id) F(ieri) P(laceret) D(e) E(a) R(e) I(ta) C(ensuerunt) / SALVBRI CONSILIO TAM HONESTA(m) RELATIONE(m) A QVAESTORIB(us) / ET MAGISTRIS COLLEGI(i) NOSTRI FACTAM ET SINGVLI ET VNI/VERSI SENTIMVS ET IDEO EXCVSANDAM POTIVS HONESTO VIRO / IVLIANO HVIVS TARDAE COGITATIONIS NOSTRAE NECESSITAT(em) / PETENDVMQ(ue) AB EO LIBENTER SVSCIPIAT COLLEGI(i) N(ostri) PATRONAL(em) / HONOREM TABVLAMQ(ue) AEREAM CVM INSCRIPTIONE HVIVS DECRE/[ti i]N DOMO EIVS PONI CENSVERVNT Translation: During the consulship of emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius (Commodus) Antoninus Augustus Pius, felix for the sixth time, and of Marcus Petronius Settimianus, the tenth of April in the temple of the college of Reggio’s blacksmiths and cloth-makers, of which the quaestors Publius Saenius Marcellinus and Caius Aufidius Dialogus are the referent people; they delivered a speech: Tutilius Julianus, man endowed with life, modesty, venerable intelligence and liberality must be elected patron of our college so that he may be considered as an example by the other judges; the decision to do this was taken after a beneficial council and a very honest report made by the quaestors and the masters of our college; we altogether feel that, in order to apologize to the right man Julian about our late decision, it would be better if he consented to the necessity and request of patronage of our college; they ordered to place honour and a bronze table with the inscription of this decree in his house. |
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Type of object |
Inscription (CIL XI, 971) |
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Type of information |
Dedicatory inscription (II cent. A.D.) |
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Place of preservation |
Reggio Emilia |
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Notes |
I[..]LIO TI(beri??) / NIO[...]IB / ILO[...]I CLAV/DIALI T(itus) HERENNIVS / IANVARIVS / VI VIR AVG(ustalis) / AMICO OPTI/MO / III / [... Translation: Tiberius (...) claudialis, Titus Herennius Januarius, sevir augustalis, to his very good friend, three (...). |
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Type of object |
Inscription (CIL XI, 972) |
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Type of information |
Celebrating inscription or inscription for public works (first half I cent. A.D.) |
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CN(aeus) BIENVS L(uci) F(ilius) POL(lia) / BROCCVS VI VIRAL(is) AEDILICVS II VIR / REGIO LEPIDO Translation: Gnaeus Bienus Broccus, Lucius’ son, of the Pollia tribe, sevir augustalis, duovir of Regium Lepidi. |
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Type of object |
Inscription (CIL XI, 974) |
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Type of information |
Funerary inscription (I-II cent. A.D.) |
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Place of preservation |
Lost |
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SATRIAE / |(mulieris) L(ibertae) / GRAPHE // C(aius) OLNIV[s] / PRISCV[s] / IIIIII VI[r] / L(ibertae) Translation: To Satria Grafis, his wife’s freedwoman. Gaio Olnio Prisco, sevir augustalis to the freedwoman. |
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Type of object |
Inscription |
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Type of information |
Funerary inscription (I-II cent. A.D.) |
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Place of preservation |
Lost (CIL XI, 975) |
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/ P(ublio) SILIO / RVFO / IIII VIRO / Q(uintus) VALERIVS / O[...]S Translation: To Publius Silius Rufus, quattuorvir Quintus Valerius (...). |
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Type of object |
Inscription (CIL XI, 979) |
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Type of information |
Funerary inscription (II-III cent. A.D.?) |
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Place of preservation |
Reggio Emilia |
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D(is) M(anibus) / AGATHYRSI / REG(iensium) CATIA / IANVARIA F(aciendum) C(uravit) / ET SIBI VIVA Translation: To the Manes Gods, the Reggio’s Agathyrsus, Catia Januaria took care of its erction also for herself, when she was alive. |
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