Fufluna/Populonium
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: W.V. Harris
Creators: W.V. Harris
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 04, 2022 11:48 AM
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History
Populonia likely derives its name from the Etruscan god 'Fufluns' and was an important maritime and commercial center of Etruria located in the Colline Metallifere.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/403212
42.9884196982, 10.4899392211
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Populonia (archaeological area) (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- DARMC location 985 (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Fufluna (In Latin characters Etruscan, 750 BC - 330 BC)
- Ποπλώνιον (Poplṓnion: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Populonia (Italian, modern)
- Populonium (Latin, 750 BC - AD 640)
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- Populonenses (Latin, 330 BC - 30 BC)
- None
- Poggio del Molino located near Fufluna/Populonium (unspecified date range)
- Tomba dei Carri located at Fufluna/Populonium (unspecified date range)
- Vignale connection Fufluna/Populonium (unspecified date range)
settlement, catacomb, cemetery, necropolis, mine, quarry (deprecated)
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- ASAT 447-470
- Arachne 8007738: Populonia, Italien Fufluna oder Pupluna, Livorno (Provinz)
- BAtlas 41 C4 Fufluna/Populonium
- BTCGI XIV, 199-249
- Cambi 2002
- Camporeale et al. 1985 185ff.
- Celuzza and Cianferoni 2010
- De Tommaso 2005
- Di Paola 2018
- Fedeli 1983
- Fusi, Martina. 2020. "I distanziatori da fornace come indicatori di produzione. Nuovi dati per Populonia." FOLD&R Italy Series 464
- L'Etruria mineraria
- McCann et al. 1977
- New Pauly Populonia
- PECS (Perseus) POPULONIA Tuscany, Italy
- Populonia in età ellenistica
- Roller 2017 233-4
- Smith 1854 (Perseus) POPULONIUM
- ToposText Populonium (Etruria)
- Wikipedia (English) Populonia
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 41 C4 Fufluna/Populonium
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Populonia and mine
Populonia was likely the first Etruscan state to mint its own coins. During the Second Punic War, Populonia supplied iron to Cornelius Scipio in his contest against Hannibal.
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Fufluna/Populonium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/403212> [accessed: 24 April 2025]
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