The Aquae Neapolitanae or Aquae Calidae Neapolitanorum
are springs and their adjoining population nucleus mentioned by
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...
as well as in the
Antonine Itinerary
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, which places them at a considerable distance inland from
Neapolis, on the road from Othoca (near
Oristano
Oristano (; ) is an Italian city and (municipality), the capital of the Province of Oristano in the central-western part of the island of Sardinia. It is located on the northern part of the Campidano plain. It was established as the provincial ...
) to Caralis (modern
Cagliari
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),
Sardinia
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,
Italy
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. They are identified with the mineral sources now known as the ''Bagni di Sardara'', on the high road from Cagliari to Oristano. (Itin. Ant. p. 82; Ptol. iii. 3. § 7;
Geogr. Rav. v. 26; De la Marmora, ''Voy. en Sardaigne'', vol. ii. p. 406.)
References
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Geography of Sardinia
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