Numistro?
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Dec 14, 2020 05:18 AM
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History
A town in Lucania that was the location of a military engagement between Hannibal and Marcus Claudius Marcellus in 210 B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442693
40.7530465, 15.486234
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM location of Muro Lucano (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 18708 (550 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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settlement, settlement-modern
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 45 C3 Numistro?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Raia S. Basile
New Pauly asserts that Numistro and the modern day Muro Lucano are one and the same.
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Numistro?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442693> [accessed: 12 June 2025]
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