ACELUM
(Asolo) Italy.
A city in the Veneto
region (
Plin. 3.130; Ptol. 3.1.30), between Treviso and
Feltre, to the W of the Via Claudia Augusta. In the
surrounding territory have been found manifestations of
the Paleolithic Age, remains of elephas primigenius and
an Iron Age necropolis It was probably a Roman municipium ascribed to the Claudia tribus. The ruins of a
theater are visible, with parts of the scaena and of the
cavea, as well as a bath building. In the Civic Museum
are fragments of architectural decoration from the theater, funerary monuments, and small bronzes.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. Fraccaro, “Intorno ai confini e alla
centurazione degli agri di Patavium e di Acelum,”
Studi
di Antichità Classica (1940); R. Battaglia et al.,
Storia
di Venezia I (1957). See also
NSc (1876-85).
B. M. SCARFÌ