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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. Conca)  , an ancient
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town of
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Latium, situated some 30 M. to the S.E. of Rome, in a low-lying region to the S. of the
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Alban Hills, to the N.W. of the Pomptine Marshes . It was accessible
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direct from Rome by a road
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running more or less parallel to the Via
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Appia, to the S.W. of it . It is said to have been an Alban colony: it was a member of the Latin
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league of 499 B.C. and became Volscian in 488 . It was several times won and lost by the Romans, and twice destroyed by fire . After 346 B.C. we hear of it only in connexion with the temple of Mater Matuta . A . Nibby (Analisi della carta dei dintorni di
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Roma, Rome, 1848, iii . 64) was the first to fix the site upon the Iow 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
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farm-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
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work was begun under the direction of Professor H . Graillot of the University of
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Bordeaux, member of the French School of Rome, but after two weeks' work was suspended by order of the
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Italian government, and then resumed under the supervision of their own officials . The
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objects discovered are in the Museo di Papa Giulio at Rome .

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Satricum
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lay on the right
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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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