Aequum Tuticum

Aequum Tuticum was a Roman vicus in southern Italy, about 35 km east-northeast of Beneventum [1]. Aequum Tuticum was founded near the intersection of two ancient Roman roads: Via Minucia and Via Aemilia in Hirpinis [1]. The vicus was first mentioned by Marcus Tullius Cicero in a 50 b.C. letter addressed to his friend Titus Pomponius Atticus; he described the place as a regular stopping point along the route to Apulia [1]. Archaeological excavations, carried out between 1990 and 2000, found wall structures and evidence from the Roman era such as ceramics, inscriptions, funerary steles and coins [1].