Puteoli

pyoo-TEE-oh-lie · Modern Pozzuoli, Italy · Also called Pozzuoli

Puteoli is a city of the biblical world, known today as Pozzuoli, Italy.

What is known

Where Paul landed in Italy and found fellow believers who urged him to stay a week before continuing to Rome (Acts 28:13-14)

History

Founded: An ancient Greek colony, Rome's chief commercial port before Ostia's expansion
Population: Estimated 65,000–100,000 residents in the 1st century AD as Rome's chief grain and trade port
Industry: Rome's principal grain and goods import harbor
Coordinates: 40.8444° N, 14.0933° E

Archaeology

Puteoli preserves the well-preserved Flavian Amphitheatre, the third-largest in Italy after the Colosseum. Its famous three-columned "Temple of Serapis" was long misidentified as a temple; it is now recognized as the city's market hall, and the columns' mollusk-bored surfaces are used by geologists to track ongoing volcanic ground movement in the area.

The macellum (market hall), historically misnamed the "Temple of Serapis," at Pozzuoli — source & licence

Underground hypogeum substructures of the Flavian Amphitheatre in Puteoli (Pozzuoli) — source & licence

Scripture references

Acts 28:13-14

On a modern map

Puteoli today

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