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SATRICUM (mod. Conca)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 230 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SATRICUM (mod. See also:Conca) , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Latium, situated some 30 M. to the S.E. of See also:Rome, in a See also:low-lying region to the S. of the See also:Alban Hills, to the N.W. of the Pomptine Marshes. It was accessible See also:direct from Rome by a road See also:running more or less parallel to the Via See also:Appia, to the S.W. of it. It is said to have been an Alban See also:colony: it was a member of the Latin See also:league of 499 B.C. and became Volscian in 488. It was several times won and lost by the See also:Romans, and twice destroyed by See also:fire. After 346 B.C. we hear of it only in connexion with the See also:temple of Mater Matuta. A. Nibby (Analisi della carta dei dintorni di See also:Roma, Rome, 1848, iii. 64) was the first to See also:fix the site upon the Iow See also:hill, surrounded by tufa cliffs, on which were still scanty remains of walling in rectangular blocks of the same material, which is now occupied by the See also:farm-See also:house of Conca. One mile W.N.W., on the hill above Le Ferriere, remains of an archaic temple, ascribed to Mater Matuta, were discovered by excavation in 1896. The See also:work was begun under the direction of See also:Professor H. Graillot of the University of See also:Bordeaux, member of the See also:French School of Rome, but after two See also:weeks' work was suspended by See also:order of the See also:Italian See also:government, and then resumed under the supervision of their own officials.

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objects discovered are in the Museo di Papa Giulio at Rome. Another Satricum See also:lay on the right See also:bank of the Liris, not far from Arpinum. See H. Graillot in Melanges de l'ecole frangaise de Rome (1896), 131; and Notizie degli scavi (1896), passim. (T.

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