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Comitium of Poseidonia/Paestum

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

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tags: extant remains

The comitium is a component of a monumental forum complex constructed at Paestum after the city became a Latin colony in 273 B.C.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/103018179

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
40.4221337, 15.0056518

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Representative Locations:
- OSM location of so-called Comitium (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Comitium of Poseidonia/Paestum makes connections with:

Comitium of Poseidonia/Paestum located at Poseidonia/Paestum (unspecified date range)

Comitium of Poseidonia/Paestum receives connections from:

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Place type:
architectural complex

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Wikipedia (English) Comitium

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Comitium of Poseidonia/Paestum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/103018179> [accessed: 19 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/103018179 |title=Places: 103018179 (Comitium of Poseidonia/Paestum) |author=Becker, J., T. Elliott |accessdate=April 19, 2024 8:16 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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