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Murgecchia

a Pleiades place resource

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A place located in the territory of Matera that produced an ancient coin struck at Poseidonia and rediscovered in 1917.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/981825187

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
40.6733294, 16.6170018

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Murgecchia (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Murgecchia (Italian, unspecified date range)

Murgecchia makes connections with:

Murgecchia succeeds Murgia Timone (unspecified date range)

Murgecchia receives connections from:

None

Place type:
findspot, place of finding

References:

See Further:

BTCGI XII, pp. 138-143 s.v. "MURGECCHIA" (Flavia Frisone)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Murgecchia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/981825187> [accessed: 15 January 2026]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/981825187 |title=Places: 981825187 (Murgecchia) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=January 15, 2026 12:33 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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