Saepinum
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Saepinum was an ancient city in what is now southern Italy .
history
Saepinum was first inhabited by Samnites and was located on the northwestern slope of the Mutria mountain near today's Torrevecchia. 293 BC It was conquered by the Romans under Lucius Papirius Cursor , who relocated the city to the place later known as Altilia in the Timmarus (now Tammaro) river plain. In the alliance war , Saepinum received 89 BC The Roman town charter as a Municipium , which belonged to the Voltinia tribe . In the 2nd century it became colonia . The Neratii family came from Saepinum, which included several consuls and the lawyer Lucius Neratius Priscus .
Saepinum was abandoned in the early Middle Ages. A successor settlement was again near the Samnite Saepinum and later transferred the name to the current Sepino .
The Roman city has so far only been partially explored. It was surrounded by a city wall with four gates, which was completed in AD 4. In the middle of the city is a trapezoidal forum that, according to an inscription, was paved by a Gaius Papius Faber. There was a theater to the north.
Attractions
Panoramic view
Porta Bojano
Porta Bojano
Porta Benevento
Forum
Fontana del Grifo
mausoleum
Basilica
city wall
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literature
- Valerio Cianfarani: Saepinum (Altilia) Italy . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
- Maria Milvia Morciano: Saepinum. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 .
- Gerhard Radke : Saepinum. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, column 1495.
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Remarks
- ↑ Titus Livius 10, 44-45.
- ↑ Anders Gerhard Radke, Saepinum , in: Der Kleine Pauly Vol. 4 (1971), Col. 1495, who does not identify the town near Altilia with Saepinum.
- ↑ CIL 9, 2443 .
Coordinates: 41 ° 26 ' N , 14 ° 37' E