Ligures Baebiani

The Tabula of Ligures Baebiani in the Museo Nazionale Romano

The archaeological area in the Macchia district of Circello

In ancient geography, the Ligures Baebiani were a settlement of Ligurians in Samnium, Italy.

The towns of Taurasia and Cisauna in Samnium had been captured in 298 BC by the consul L. Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, and the territory of the former remained Roman state domain (ager publicus). In 180 BC, 47,000 Ligurians, the Ligures Apuani from the neighborhood of Luna, including women and children, were forcibly deported to this district. Two settlements were formed, the Ligures Baebiani and the Ligures Corneliani, taking their names from the consuls of 181 BC who oversaw their deportation, M. Baebius Tamphilus and P. Cornelius Cethegus.

The site of the former town lies 15 m. north of Beneventum in the Macchia district of the municipality of modern Circello ^[1], on the road to Saepinum and Aesernia. In its ruins several inscriptions have been found, notably a large bronze tablet discovered in a public building in the Forum bearing the date AD 101, and relating to the alimentary institution founded by Trajan here (see Veleia). A sum of money was lent to landed proprietors of the district (whose names and estates are specified in the inscription), and the interest which it produced formed the income of the institution, which, on the model of that of Veleia, would have served to support a little over one hundred children. The capital was 401,800 sesterces, and the annual interest probably at 5%, i.e. 20,090 sesterces. The site of the other settlement, that of the Ligures Corneliani is unknown.

See Theodor Mommsen in Corp. Inscr. Lat. ix. (Berlin, 1883), 125 sqq.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ligures Baebiani". Encyclopædia Britannica. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 680. 

Archaeological sites in Campania
Province of Avellino	Aeclanum Compsa
Province of Benevento	Benevento Arch of Trajan Roman Theatre Caudium Ligures Baebiani Saticula
Province of Caserta	Allifae Ausona Calatia Cales Santa Maria Capua Vetere Arch of Hadrian (Capua) Casilinum Sant'Angelo in Formis Sinuessa Trebula Balliensis Vescia
Province of Naples	Atella Baiae Cumae Grotta di Cocceio Herculaneum Villa of the Papyri Liternum Miseno Piscina Mirabilis Naples Aqua Augusta Bourbon Tunnel Catacombs of San Gaudioso Catacombs of San Gennaro Crypta Neapolitana Virgil's tomb Macellum of Naples Oplontis Villa Poppaea Palazzo a Mare Pompeii Pozzuoli Flavian Amphitheater (Pozzuoli) Lucrinus Lacus Lake Avernus Macellum of Pozzuoli Portus Julius Stabiae Suessula Castello Barbarossa Villa Jovis Villa Boscoreale
Province of Salerno	Monte Pruno Paestum Heraion at the mouth of the Sele Temple of Athena Second Temple of Hera Tomb of the Diver Pertosa Caves Velia Villa Romana of Minori

1. ↑ Circello Tourism "Scavi Archeologici di Macchia", Retrieved on 25 May 2017.