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Samosata

a Pleiades name resource

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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.

Romanized Name(s):
Samosata

Name as attested:

Samosat[a]

Language:
Latin

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

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

References:

Evidence:

EDR109465 (photo) = CIL 6.1409

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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