TARVISIUM
(Treviso) Veneto, Italy.
The site
is in the plain of the Silis river, a short distance from
the ancient Via Claudia Augusta. There have been finds
in the area and in surrounding zones from the prehistoric
and early Venetic periods. The name is probably of
Celtic derivation. The written documentation (Plin.
HN
3.126,130; Paul. Diac. 2.12-13; 3.26;
CIL V, 201ff) is
scarce and late. A municipium of the tenth Augustan
region, perhaps by 49 B.C. it was at the center of an
agricultural area with indication of centuriation and
traces of roads. Inscriptions attest to several structures
including a quadrivium, walls, a crypt, and a templum.
The small finds (funerary stelai, portraits, minor objects)
are preserved in the local Museo Civico, along with other
material of various provenance collected between 1873
and 1932.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fluss, “Tarvisium,”
PW 4A (1931)
2452-53; G. Traversari,
Arte antica e moderna (1964)
117ff, 249ff, 382ff; G. Pilla, “Nota preliminare sul rilevamento della centuriazione trevigiana,”
AttiVen 74
(1965-66) 405-10; L. Beschi, “Treviso,”
EAA 7 (1966)
980-81.
L. BESCHI
