Agnone
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jun 11, 2025 03:22 PM
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History
Agnone is a comune in the Italian province of Isernia, in the Molise region. It lies about 53 km (33 miles) northwest of Campobasso. An ancient center of Oscan-Samnite culture, Agnone is known particularly as the namesake of the third-century BCE "Agnone tablet" that was discovered at Fonte di Romito.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432656
41.8106527, 14.383245
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Mura Ciclopiche Sannitiche (1000 BC - 1 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Agnone (Italian, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- None
- Fonte Romito located near Agnone (unspecified date range)
settlement, wall (defensive), sanctuary (religious center)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 F2 Agnone
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Agnone
N. Purcell, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Agnone: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432656> [accessed: 22 June 2025]
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