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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 900 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUFIDENA , an See also:

ancient See also:city of the See also:Samnites Caraceni, the site of which is just See also:north of the See also:modern Alfedena,' See also:Italy, a station on the railway between See also:Sulmona and Isernia, 37 M. from the latter. Its remains are fully and accurately described by L. Mariani in Monumenti dei Lincei (1901), 225 seq.: cf. Notizie degli scavi, 1901, 442 seq.; 1902, 516 seq. The ancient city occupied two hills, both over 3800 ft. above See also:sea-level (in the valley between were found the supposed remains of the later See also:forum), and the walls, of rough Cyclopean See also:work, were over a mile in ' Two churches here contain paintings of See also:interest in the See also:history of Abruzzese See also:art, and one of them, the Madonna del Campo, contained fragments of a See also:temple of considerable See also:size. See also:AUGEREAU length. A fortified outpost See also:lay on a still higher See also:hill to the north. Not very much is as yet known of the city itself (though one public See also:building of the 5th See also:century B.C. was excavated in 'Igor, and a small See also:sanctuary in 1902), See also:attention having been chiefly devoted to the See also:necropolis which lay below it; 1400 tombs had already been examined in 1908, though this number is conjectured to be only a sixteenth of the whole. They are all inhumation burials, of the advanced See also:iron See also:age, and date from the 7th to the 4th century B.C., falling into three classes—those without See also:coffin, those with a coffin formed of See also:stone slabs, and those with a coffin formed of tiles. The See also:objects discovered are preserved in a museum on the spot. In the See also:Roman See also:period we find Aufidena figuring as a See also:post station on the road between Sulmo and See also:Aesernia, which, however, runs past See also:Castel di Sangro, See also:crossing the See also:river by an ancient See also:bridge some 5 M. to the north-See also:east. Castel di Sangro has remains of ancient walls, but these are attributed to a road by Mariani, and in any See also:case the fortified See also:area there was quite small, only one-sixteenth the size of Aufidena.

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identification of Castel di Sangro with Aufidena must therefore be 'rejected, though we must allow that it was probably the Roman post station; the ancient city, since its See also:capture by the See also:Romans in the 3rd century B.C., having lost something of its importance. (T.

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