Ad Fines is Latin for "at the border", and we've got 13 of these in Pleiades
[HTML, KML]. By the second century AD these were well inside the borders of
the Empire, but the name suggests that they were founded as frontier outposts.
Quite likely they might have been road stations or other stops coincident with provincial boundaries (internal to the empire) or on the transition from the extra-urban territory of one ancient city to another.
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Re: Ancient Toponym of the Week: Ad Fines
Author: Tom Elliott
Quite likely they might have been road stations or other stops coincident with provincial boundaries (internal to the empire) or on the transition from the extra-urban territory of one ancient city to another.