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OCRICULUM (mod. Otricoli)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 992 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OCRICULUM (mod. Otricoli)  , an ancient
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town of Umbria, Italy, on the Via
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Flaminia, near the E.
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bank of the Tiber, 44 M . N. of Rome and 12 M . S. of Narnia . It concluded an
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alliance with Rome in 308 B.C . The
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modern
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village lies higher than the ancient town, and excavations on the site of the latter in 1775 and following years led to the
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discovery of the
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baths, a theatre, a
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basilica and other buildings . In the baths were found a number of
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works of
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art, now in the Vatican, notably the mosaic pavement of the Sala della Rotonda, and the celebrated head of
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Zeus and the head of Claudius in the same
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room . An amphitheatre is still visible, but the other buildings have in the main been covered up again .

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