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GNATIA (also EGNATIA or IGNATIA, mod. Anazzo, near Fasano) , an See also: ancient city of the Peucetii, and their frontier See also: town towards the Sallentini (i.e. of Apulia towards See also: Calabria), in See also: Roman times of importance for its See also: trade, lying as it did on the See also: sea, at the point where the Via Traiana joined the See also: coast road,' 38 m
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S.E. of Barium
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The ancient city walls have been almost entirely destroyed in See also: recent times to provide See also: building material,' and the place is famous for the discoveries made in its tombs
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A considerable collection of antiquities from Gnatia is preserved at Fasano, though the best are in the museum at See also: Bari
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Gnatia was the scene of the See also: prodigy at which Horace mocks (Sat. i
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Near Fasano are two small subterranean chapels with paintings of the lath century A.D
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Bertaux, L'See also: Art dane l'Italie meridionale, See also: Paris, 1904, 135)
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