Object description

Matilo or Matilone was once a Roman fort in modern-day Leiden. Positioned on the southern banks of the Oude Rijn, it served to protect the Roman borders in the province of Germania inferior . On the Peutinger map, it lies between the encampments of Albaniana and Praetorium Agrippinae . The seventh-century Ravenna Cosmography gives its name as Matellionem.