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CUPRA , the name of two See also:

ancient See also:Italian municipia in See also:Picenum. r. Cupra Maritima (Civita di See also:Marano near the See also:modern Cupra Marittima), on the Adriatic See also:coast, 48 m. S.S.E. of See also:Ancona, erected in the neighbourhood of an ancient See also:temple of the See also:Sabine goddess Cupra, which was restored by See also:Hadrian in A.D. 127, and probably (though there is some controversy on the point) occupied the site of the See also:church of S. Martino, some way to the See also:south, in which the inscription of Hadrian exists. At Civita the remains of what was believed to be the temple were more probably those of the See also:forum of the See also:town, as is indicated by the See also:discovery of fragments of a See also:calendar and of a statue of Hadrian. Some statuettes of See also:Juno were also among the finds. An inscription of a See also:water See also:reservoir erected in 7 B.C. is also recorded. But the more ancient See also:Picene town appears to have been situated near the See also:hill of S. See also:Andrea, a little way to the south, where pre-See also:Roman tombs have been discovered. See C.

Hulsen in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie (See also:

Stuttgart, 1901), iv. 176o; G. Speranza, Il Piceno (See also:Ascoli Piceno, 1900), i. 119 seq. 2. Cupra See also:Montana, Io m. S.W. of Aesis (mod. See also:Jesi) by road. The See also:village, formerly called Massaccio, has resumed the ancient name. Its site is fixed by inscriptions—cf. Th. See also:Mommsen in Corp.

Inscrip. See also:

Lat. ix. (See also:Berlin, 1883), p. 543; and various ruins, perhaps of See also:baths, and remains of subterranean aqueducts have been discovered near the church of S. Eleuterio. See F. Menicucci in G. Colucci, Antichitd Picene, xx. (1793).

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