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Samosata

a Pleiades name resource

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Last modified Sep 08, 2018 11:26 AM History
Reconstructed Latin name (transliteration?), attested on an early third-century honorific inscription from Rome. "Samosate" (found on the stone) is presumed to be an odd or failed attempt at the locative case.

Samosata

Samosat[a]

Latin

geographic name

accurate

complete

Certain

  • Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300) (confident)

Evidence:

Pleiades