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ATESTE (mod. Este, q.v.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 824 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ATESTE (mod. See also:Este, q.v.) , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Venetia, at the See also:southern See also:foot of the Euganean hills, 43 ft. above See also:sea-level; 22 M. S.W. of See also:Patavium (See also:Padua). The site was occupied in very See also:early times, as the discoveries since 1882 show. Large cemeteries have been excavated, which show three different periods froth the 8th See also:century B.c. down to the See also:Roman domination. In the first See also:period (See also:Italic) See also:cremation burials closely approximating to the See also:Villanova type are found; in the second' (Venetian) the tombs are constructed of blocks of See also:stone, and situlae (See also:bronze buckets), sometimes decorated with elaborate designs, are frequently used to contain the cinerary urns; in the third (Gallic), which begins during the 4th century B.C., though cremation continues, the tombs are much poorer., the ossuaries being of badly baked rough See also:clay, and show traces of Gallic See also:influence, and characteristics of the La-Tene See also:civilization. The many important See also:objects found in these excavations are preserved in the See also:local museum. See G. Ghirardini in Notizie degli Scavi; Monumenti del Lincei, ii. (1893) 161 seq., vii. (1897) 5 seq., x. (1901) 5 seq.; Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Scienze Storiche (See also:Rome, 1904), v.

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Inscriptions show that the See also:national See also:language asserted its existence even after Ateste came into the hands of the See also:Romans. When this occurred is not known; boundary stones of 135 B.C. exist, which See also:divide the territory of Ateste from that of Patavium and of Vicetia, showing that the former extended from the See also:middle of the Euganean hills to the Atesis (mod. See also:Adige, from which Ateste no doubt took its name, and on which it once stood). After the See also:battle of See also:Actium, See also:Augustus settled veterans from various of his legions in this territory, Ateste being thenceforth spoken of as a See also:colony. It appears to have furnished many recruits, especially for the cohortes urbanae. It appears but little in See also:history, though its importance is vouched for by numerous inscriptions, the See also:majority of which belong to the early See also:Empire. (T.

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