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NEAPOLIS (Ancient city) SARDINIA
Napoli, a town on the west coast of the island of Sardinia, celebrated for its warm baths.
An ancient city on the W coast of Sardinia below Cape Frasca, near
the present church of S. Maria di Nabui. It is mentioned by Ptolemy (3.3.2) and
by the Itineraries (It. Ant. 84; Rav. Cosm. 5.26), which place it on the Via Karalibus-Othocam.
A milestone (CIL X, 8008) attests that Neapolis was linked with the colony of
Uselis. Cited by the agronomist Palladius for the richness of its fields (De Agr.
3.16), the city must have been in an area of large landed estates mainly engaged
in the cultivation of cereals, to judge from the numerous ruins of villas. Scholars
of the last century describe the solidarity and size of the private buildings;
the encircling walls; the well-paved roads; and the aqueduct, whose ruins are
still visible, which carried water to the city from Landa de Giaxi, eight Roman
miles away. Its territory must have bordered Cagliari's, as is shown by the mention
of "water from Neapolis" (Ptol. 3.3.7) in the territory of Sardara.
The city declined during the invasions of the Vandals and the Saracens.
Excavation undertaken in 1951 near S. Maria di Nabui brought to light
a small bath building of brick, with a caldarium to the S, an apodyterium to the
N, and a frigidarium. To the E are several modest houses and a Late Roman necropolis
with tufa sarcophagi and masonry tombs. At S' Anzrarza, near the sea, another
bath building of considerable size has an anterior gallery from which one enters
a large hall with a polychrome mosaic pavement.
D. Manconi, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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