<p>Ford across the sharp, shallow bend of the *Tiber, at the W tip of the *Campus Martius near the *Tarentum (Ov., <i>Fast</i>. 1.501: <i>vada Tarenti</i>; Coarelli 21). As part of the old road between Veii and Rome, the ford connected the ancient street (*Via Triumphalis) on the right bank of the Tiber with its continuation on the left, here discussed under *Via Tecta (1). This passage must have appeared rather antiquated in the Augustan period, and the ford was replaced soon after, perhaps already by Caligula, by the “Pons Neronianus” (a name not attested before the 12th c. A.D.; Liverani).</p>