Samnite House
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: jfu
Creators: jfu
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 19, 2020 07:06 AM
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History
tags:
hellenized,
domus
The so-called "Samnite House" is a domus in Herculaneum that originally dates to the second century B.C., making it one of the oldest buildings discovered at the site.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/214908564
40.8060454235, 14.3474194487
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location of the Samnite House (330 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of Samnite House (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Casa Sannitica (Italian, modern)
- Samnite House located at Herculaneum (unspecified date range)
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townhouse
Pleiades
The Samnite House originally occupied the entirety of the southern part of Insula V and included a three-sided peristyle. The plot was subdivided in the first century A.D. The house is noted for its well-preserved atrium that still stands to two stories (three sides with pilasters and interspersed latticed fences and one side with a loggia).
jfu, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Samnite House: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/214908564> [accessed: 08 April 2025]
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