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Via Postumia Roman road map

About 462 km long. The red line is the route recorded in the Itiner-e atlas of ancient roads.

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Key
  • Certain Well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m
  • Conjectured Known road, course less precisely documented
  • Hypothetical Route not pinned down, or existence uncertain
  • Secondary road Thinner line, any certainty

How accurate are these lines? Most Roman road routes on this map are approximate. The Itiner-e project, which supplies the data, classes most of them as Conjectured, so read a line as a best estimate of where the road ran rather than a surveyed route.

About the Via Postumia

The Via Postumia is a Roman road about 462 km long in the Itiner-e atlas of ancient roads. It is mapped as 25 separate segments within Italy. 14 Roman places lie along it, from Aquileia to Genua.

Only 7% of the Via Postumia is classed as certain; 93% is conjectured.

  • 462 kmlength
  • 25segments
  • 14Roman places
  • 1country

How sure are we where it ran?

How certainLength (km)Share
Certain33.77%
Conjectured42993%
Hypothetical00%

Certain: well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m. Conjectured: known road, course less precisely documented. Hypothetical: route not pinned down, or existence uncertain.

Where the Via Postumia goes

CountryLength (km)
Italy462

Roman places along the Via Postumia

In order along the route, from Aquileia to Genua. Names are the Roman ones from the Pleiades gazetteer.

  1. Aquileia
  2. Apicilia
  3. Iulia Concordia
  4. Opitergium
  5. Vicetia
  6. Verona
  7. Bedriacum
  8. Cremona
  9. Placentia
  10. Comeli magus
  11. Iria
  12. Dertona
  13. Libarna
  14. Genua

Modern towns near the route

These towns and cities are within about 4 km of the road, in route order.

  • Portogruaro (Italy)
  • Oderzo (Italy)
  • Lancenigo-Villorba (Italy)
  • Castelfranco Veneto (Italy)
  • Vicenza (Italy)
  • Montecchio Maggiore-Alte Ceccato (Italy)
  • San Bonifacio (Italy)
  • Verona (Italy)
  • Villafranca di Verona (Italy)
  • Cremona (Italy)
  • Piacenza (Italy)
  • Voghera (Italy)
  • Tortona (Italy)

Source

Road name as recorded in the Itinerary field of Itiner-e (version 2024 1.3, doi:10.5281/zenodo.17122148). Sources most often cited by its 25 segments (segments citing each in brackets): [1] Matteazzi 2017 (12): Matteazzi, Michele (2017). All the Roads to Patavium: Morphology, Genesis and Development of the Roman Road Network Around Padua. in Open Archaeology 3. [2] Luccarini 2002 (6): short reference only, not listed in the Itiner-e bibliography file. [3] BAtlas 39 (5): short reference only, not listed in the Itiner-e bibliography file.. Route lines: Itiner-e, CC BY 4.0. See all data sources and licences.

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