GC1ZR2V [BD] - Vel(l)eia (Traditional Cache) in Emilia–Romagna, Italy created by bulldraga

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[ITA]
Centro di notevole importanza agricola e commerciale dei Liguri Eleiati o Velleiati, divenne prima colonia latina nell'89 a.C. e poi Municipio nel 49 a.C., ascritto alla famiglia patrizia dei Galeria.
La città romana di Velleia si sviluppa alle spalle della colonia di Piacenza (a m.460 s.l.m.), nella valle di un subaffluente del Po, il Chero, in territorio ligure, una volta domata - poco prima della metà del II sec. a.C. - la lunga resistenza delle popolazioni indigene. La presenza di un sepolcreto a cremazione della seconda età del ferro, scavato alla fine del secolo scorso, a nord-est dell’abitato romano, consente di ritenerla sorta nell’area d’insediamento di una comunità protostorica.
Veleia diviene, attorno alla metà del I secolo a.C., municipium, cioè capoluogo di un distretto montano esteso dal Taro al torrente Luretta e dal crinale appenninico alla pianura, confinante con i territori di Parma, Piacenza, Libarna, Lucca.
Alle fortune della città non sono estranee motivazioni politiche e militari. Pur essendo lontano dalle grandi strade transappenniniche e minacciato da frane, il sito favorisce probabilmente una spontanea evoluzione del primitivo nucleo urbano in virtù delle acque cloruro-sodiche presenti nei suoi terreni, oggetto di devozione per le loro proprietà terapeutiche, sicuramente apprezzate per usi alimentari.
Decadde a partire del III secolo d.C. per poi scomparire nel IV secolo a causa di alcune frane che causarono uno slittamento del terreno.

[ENG]
Veleia, an ancient town of Aemilia, Italy, situated about 20 miles south of Placentia. It is mentioned by Pliny among the towns of the eighth region, though the Veleiates were Ligurians by race. Its inhabitants were, in the census of Vespasian, found to be remarkable for their longevity. Nothing further was known of it until 1747, when some ploughmen found the famous Tabula alimentaria, now in the museum at Parma. This, the largest inscribed bronze tablet of antiquity (4 ft. 6 in. by 9 ft. 6 in.) contains the list of estates in the territories of Veleia, Libarna, Placentia, Parma and Luca, in which Trajan had assigned before 102 B.C. 72,000 sesterces and then 1,044,000 sesterces on a mortgage bond to forty-six estates. The total value of which was reckoned at over 13,000,000 sesterces (~I3o,ooo), the interest on which at 5% was to serve for the support of 266 boys and 6 girls, the former receiving 16, the latter 12 sesterces a month.
Excavations begun on the site in 1760, and were at first successful; the forum and basilica, the thermae and the amphitheatre and private houses with many statues (twelve of marble from the basilica, and a fine bronze head of Hadrian) and inscriptions were discovered. Pre-Roman cremation tombs have also been found, with objects of bronze and iron of no great value. But later excavations which were carried on at intervals up to 1876 have given less fruitful results. The oldest dated monument is a bronze tablet with a portion of the text of the Lex Rubria of 49 B.C. which dealt with the administration of justice in Cisalpine Gaul in connezion with the extension to it of the privileges of the Roman franchise, the latest an inscription of A.D. 276. How and when it was abandoned is uncertain: the previously prevalent view that it was destroyed by a landslip was proved to be mistaken by the excavations of 1876. Most of the objects found are in the museum at Parma.