Sentinum

Antique mosaic from a villa near Sentinum (200–250 AD), now in Munich, Glyptothek

Sentinum was an ancient city on the border between the Marches and Umbria in Italy . It was near today's Sassoferrato .

history

The city was 295 BC Site of the Battle of Sentinum during the Third Samnite War , in which a Roman army defeated the Samnites and Senones .

In the year 41 BC There was another siege: During the Peruvian War , Quintus Salvidienus Rufus Salvius, who was fighting under Octavian (later Emperor Augustus ), tried to take the city. He succeeded even after a long siege and had the city destroyed.

In 1890 the first archaeological excavations were carried out near the town of Sentinum by the Italian T. Buccolini. Among other things, he found the mosaic pictured above from the 3rd century AD, today in the Glyptothek in Munich .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita 10, 17 ff.
2. ↑ Appian , Civil Wars 5:30 ; Cassius Dio , Roman History 48, 13, 2 and 48, 13, 5 f.
3. ^ T. Buccolini: Note degli scavi 1890

Web links

• Princeton Encyclopaedia of Classical Sites

Coordinates: 43 ° 25 '  N , 12 ° 51'  E