Of the two cenotaphs that we have just analyzed, though it is unknown the original place where they were found, it is nevertheless certain their recovery in the territory of Pianura and, other singular fact, is that both attest clearly the existence of the Gens Marcia, and so of a "Praedium Marcianum" inside the territory of PIANURA.

Johannowsky, as we have read, collocates the MARCIANO in the south of the Marzano lane and precisely in Terracina. But Terracina was (and is) outside the territory of Pianura, which included the initial tract, in the north, of the Marzano lane.

So, as the two cenotaphs attesting the MARCIANO were found in the territory of Pianura, we are inclined to locate the MARCIANO not in the south, but in the north of the Marzano lane (= lane CINTIA = via CINTIA), and precisely in the place of the hamlet of “LA CINTIA” , whose toponym could have substituted the MARCIANO or MARZANO, just like the toponym of Via CINTIA supplanted the one of the MARZANO lane.

Moreover, at the hamlet of "LA CINTIA" they joined and join still now as to a cross-roads:

a)  the old MARZANO lane (then CINTIA lane and today Via CINTIA): from Terracina to PIANURA.

b)  Via Cavone degli Sbirri coming from Agnano and direct to Soccavo and Napoli, as well as to Terracina and Pianura , and identified by many people with the supposed variant of Via Antiniana passing through the north area of the Lake of Agnano.

So " LA CINTIA " was located in the middle of an important road junction which could have reasonably had the role of “statio”.

But did "LA CINTIA" belong to Pianura ?

Today the answer is certainly negative, but we want to report here a passage of the description of the borderline:

“Going down along the edge of Pignatiello, you get to the Fosso di Fra’ Giusto. Here, crossing part of the Cintia lane, you arrive to the Selva del Burrone of St. Andrea and from there you enter Burrone de’ Birri and going on you arrive to Agnano.”

But where is it located the Selva del Burrone (Wood of the Ravine) of St. Andrea?

It is not reported in the maps in our possession. Nevertheless it exists a “Fosso di Selva” (Ditch of Wood) immediately eastward of La Cintia.

So if the Selva del Burrone of St. Andrea could be identified with “Fosso di Selva”, La Cintia would be included in the ancient territory of Pianura.
If on the contrary, as it is likely, the Selva del Burrone of St. Andrea was immediately adjoining to the “Fosso di Fra’ Giusto” and was its natural prosecution, so La Cintia was not part of the territory of Pianura, though it was adjacent it.

professor Alessandro GIULIANI