Pietra Di Trentola

Undisputed proof that Marcianise is of Roman origin.

It seems to be the testimony of a Roman settlement

Beautiful vriccio in Marcianise, looks like Teresa, a witty topic of discussion among friends.

From the photos you can see that they gave value to this historical "find" .... it looks like a boulder fallen from a truck ?

This stone, dating back to the Middle Ages, should be a place of culture. Instead they use it as a means of creating a roundabout. I would like to understand what could happen if someone crashed on it.

During the centuries the stone has been the subject of local legends that indicated it as a cover of a diabolic treasure and source of misfortune for which it tried to move it by pulling it with ropes tied to oxen. It is said that after turning it over, a voice was heard saying the following words "Now that you have shot me, I am fresh and rested".

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The stone of Trentola, is an archaeological find, perhaps it is the oldest and most significant trace of the past of the city of Marcianise in the province of Caserta. It is a cylindrical Roman terminal stone probably of the Augustan age. This stone was placed where the sixth decumanus and the fourth hinge, of ancient Marcianise, cross; today it is clearly visible in the middle of the intersection between the Via Principale Loriano - Trentola and that of Casal del Bene. It is possible that it constituted the southern limit of the road network within which the ancient nucleus of Marcianise's century was born, precisely born in Roman times. Currently it presents a chipping, perhaps due to the carelessness of some motorist. (See the publications "The cippus of the Roman centuriation of Marcianise" and "The Roman cippus of St. Archangel" published in 1986 by Prof. Giuseppe Genoni, president of the Association "La Piana del Clanio" of Marcianise). During the centuries the stone has been the subject of local legends that indicated it as a cover of a diabolic treasure and source of misfortune for which it tried to move it by pulling it with ropes tied to oxen. It is said that after turning it over, a voice was heard saying the following words "Now that you have shot me, I am fresh and rested". Recently the scholar Nicola Erboso has hypothesized that the cippus of Trentola is an element of a Roman lever press. This belief stems from the existence of several calcareous stones similar to that of Marcianise with the characteristic dovetail joints necessary to lift it perpendicularly. One is in the Calvi Risorta museum (from Caiazzo), another in Francolise, etc. Moreover, the cultivation of olives in the Caserta area is documented by ancient parchments.

It is difficult to ascertain whether this finding was taken from an original settlement, probably in the Atellan area. Certainly his mutilations and grazes are leaning towards this thesis. Many assumptions have been made about its historical dating and its functionality. Some believe that the recesses in the upper part of the Stone are road signs, perhaps to indicate the direction of the watercourse of the ancient Clanio river. According to the archaeologist M. Pagano it is a memorial stone of the ancient centuriation of the territory carried out in Roman times. A probable hypothesis about its function is that put forward by the late prof. Pietro Zinzi, who believed that the stone represented nothing more than the indispensable support for the lump or groma, useful to the land surveyor of the time to divide the areas orthogonally and to verify the alignments or trespassing. A stone similar to that of Trentola has been found in the Atellan area and is currently visible outside a civilian house in Succivo. Another hypothesis has been put forward by the archaeologist Pasquale Fecondo, according to whom the "stone" is nothing more than the counterweight of the millstone of a press. The latter hypothesis shares the prof. Nicola Erboso, researcher of local history, who has identified another element, perhaps from the same press, in a slab placed at the entrance of the nearby Church of Trentola.