THE TERRITORY AND THE PROPERTIES

In this section two identical stones (nos. 42-43), found together with a third in the Albense area, near Cappelle, they probably marked the boundaries of a property.

On the base of the discovery data it can be thought that they were placed at vertices of a quadrilateral of about 500 meters on each side and therefore delimiting an agricultural property of about 25 hectares, a little less than 100 yugeri.

The funerary cippus n. 44, however, found in Avezzano in the near the Orsini Castle, it is interesting because, together at the funeral altar no. 11, also found in Avezzano, documents the ancient presence in this area of ​​the noble Salvius, from which the current name of the mountain clearly derives Salviano.

Similarly, the funeral altar no. 25, also found in Avezzano, attests to the presence of an Avidia family, at the origin of the name of Avezzano.

Avidianum, or fundus Avidianus, originally indicated ‘the estate of the Avidii’ (or Greed); later it remained to indicate the district and was transmitted to the inhabited center that gradually arose there.