INTERPROMIUM
INTERPROMIUM a village of the Marrucini, forming a station on the Via Claudia Valeria between Corfinium and Teate.
It is repeatedly mentioned in the Itineraries, but the distances are variously given. (
Itin. Ant. pp. 102,310;
Tab. Peut.) The line of the ancient highroad is, however, well ascertained, and the position of Interpromium is fixed by ancient remains, as well as mediaeval records, at a place on the right bank of the Aternus, just below the narrow gorge through which that river flows below
Popoli. The site is now marked only by a tavern called the
Osteria di S. Valentino, from the little town of that name on the hill above; it is distant 12 Roman miles from Corfinium (
S. Pellino), and 13 from Teate (
Chieti), or 21 from
Pescara, at the mouth of the Aternuis. (Holsten.
Not. ad Cluv. p. 143; D'Anville,
Analyse de l'Italie, p. 178; Romanelli, vol. iii. p. 117.)
An inscription also mentions Interpromium under the name of Pagus Interprominus (Orell.
Inscr. 144; Romanelli,
l. c.); it is called “Interpromium vicus” in the Itinerary of Antoninus (p. 102), and was evidently a mere village, probably a dependency of Teate.
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