Campochiaro
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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Jul 31, 2019 02:38 PM
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History
An Italic sanctuary sacred to Hercules located in località Civitella in the comune of Campochiaro. The site is to be connected with the Pentrian Samnites.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432746
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sanctuary (religious center)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 G3 Campochiaro
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Campochiaro
Activity at the site begins in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. and the attested sanctuary is built in the fourth century B.C. The sanctuary is situated on two terraces constructed in polygonal masonry. The lower terrace included a long porticoed building with a scenographic aspect.
N. Purcell, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Campochiaro: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432746> [accessed: 07 March 2021]
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