Osteria dell’Osa
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jun 23, 2025 03:20 PM
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History
The site of a major Iron Age necropolis (Latial chronology) composed of over 600 burials.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/422994
41.89127225, 12.700965
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of modern village of Osteria dell'Osa (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 23166 (1000 BC - 550 BC) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Osteria dell'Osa (Italian, modern)
- Osteria dell’Osa located near Gabii (unspecified date range)
- Osteria dell’Osa bounds Lago di Castiglione (unspecified date range)
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catacomb, cemetery, necropolis, settlement-modern
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 43 C2 Osteria dell’Osa
- BTCGI XIII, 105-109 (Emilio Peruzzi and Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri)
- Bietti Sestieri 1980
- Bietti Sestieri 1992
- Bietti Sestieri 1992b
- Bietti Sestieri 2010
- EncAncHist Osteria dell'Osa in Latium
- Janko 2015
- Macchiarelli and Salvadei 1994
- Ridgway 1995
- Ridgway 2004
- Smith 1996
- Watkins 1995
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 43 C2 Osteria dell’Osa
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Osteria dell’Osa. An incised inscription on an impasto vessel from tomb 482 at Osteria dell'Osa is considered to be the earliest documented example of the Greek alphabet in Italy.
L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Osteria dell’Osa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/422994> [accessed: 21 May 2026]
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