CARSULAE
Umbria, Italy.
A town on the
Via Flaminia, 18 km N of Narnia, belonging to the
tribus Clustumina. It figured in history only in A.D. 69
when Vespasian's army marching on Rome halted there,
while the Vitellians held Narnia (Tac.
Hist. 3.60). Its
ruins are well preserved. Arches spanned the Via
Flaminia at either gate; one survives. Around the forum,
excavations have been in progress for the last 25 years;
three sides of the trapezoidal square, including a basilica,
twin temples on podia, and twin quadrifrontal arches
have been uncovered; with, just to the E, an amphitheater (86 x 62 m) set in a limestone sink, and a theater.
All the buildings are of similar construction and seem
to belong to the Early Imperial period.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Forma Italiae VII.1
Tuder-Carsulae
(1938) 89-104 and pls. 35-39 (G. Becatti)
MI;
EAA 2
(1959) 372 (U. Ciotti)
I;
AA 85 (1970) 319-21 (H.
Blanck).
L. RICHARDSON, JR.
