AVEIA
Abruzzi, Italy.
A city of the Vestini
and a Roman prefecture in the upper Aterno valley, today in the province of Aquila. In an inscription from the
3d c. A.D. it is mentioned as the municipiuin Habae (
ILS
9087). The official name of the community, Aveintes
Vestini, included indication of its ethnic makeup (
CIL
IX, 4206;
Ann. Épigr. 1937, 119, 1. 12; 121, 1. 10ff).
Part of the city was in the area occupied by the modern town on the slope of the mountain, and part was
farther down in the valley. The exact limits and the urban
plan of the settlement have not been studied even though
there remain stretches of the city walls in opus incertum
and remnants of buildings including a theater so-called the
Palazzo del Re.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
V. M. Giovenazzi,
Della città di Aveia
ne' Vestini (1773);
CIL IX, p. 341; H. Nissen,
Italische
Landeskunde 2 (1902) 442; R. Gardner, in
JRS 3
(1913) 216ff; A. La Regina in
MemLinc 13 (1968)
383ff, 429ff.
A. LA REGINA
