AVEIA  , an

ancient town of the Vestini, on the Via Claudia Nova, 6 m . S.E. of Aquila, N.E. of the modern village of Fossa . Some remains of ancient buildings still exist, and the name Aveia still clings to the place . The identification was first made by V . M . Giovenazzi, Della Cittd di Aveia ne' Vestini (Rome, 1773) . Paintings in the church of S . Maria ad Cryptas, of the 12th to ,5th centuries, are important in the history of art . An inscription of a stationarius of the 3rd century, sent here on special duty (no doubt for the suppression of brigandage), was found here in Igo 2 (A. von Domaszewski, Rom . Mitt., 1902, 330) .