Murgantia
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).
Last modified
Nov 17, 2020 12:15 AM
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History
A city described as strongly fortified that the Romans under Publius Decius captured during the Third Samnite War. It is now unlocated.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/438790
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (550 BC - 30 BC)
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- Murgantia (Latin, 550 BC - 30 BC)
- None
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None
unlocated
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 Murgantia
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: falsely located at Basolice on basis of forged inscription
N. Purcell, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Murgantia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/438790> [accessed: 22 January 2025]
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