Tolentinus nell’altopiano plestino

Abstract

A bronze plate “Tessera Paganica”, since 1642 in the Collection of
Lodovico Jacobilli at Foligno, presents an inscription referring to a lustratio that L.
Veratius Felicissimus celebrated on the fifth day of the ides of May of an unspecified
year, in the pagus Tolentines, of which he was patronus. A series of documents from
the late Middle Ages and cartography from the 18th century attest a Tolentinus already
as a site of an ancient castle and a mons Tolentinus in the plateau of the Colfiorito of
Foligno. The site marked the border between the territories of Foligno and the Marca,
between the dioceses of Foligno, Camerino and Nocera Umbra. In this paper the author
advances the hypothesis that the pagus Tolentines mentioned in the plate is the pagus
of the municipality of Plestia, centre of the Augustan Regio VI and not Tolentinum,
municipality of the Augustan Regio V.