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Foundation Dutch Centre for Latium Studies, Published 1998. Softcover, 60 pp.; 24 cm; revised and updated edition; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, plans, and drawings throughout; color photograph on the front cover.
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In Very Good condition. Glossy pictorial softcovers with light bumping to edges and corners and a few faint surface marks. Binding tight. University Department of Classics stamp on inside of front cover. Otherwise unmarked.Volume 1 of the Satricana series. Issued by the Foundation Dutch Centre for Latium Studies on the occasion of the XVth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Amsterdam, July 1998, with contributions by M. Gnade, R. R. Knoop, C. M. Stibbe, and D. J. Waarsenburg. An accessible English-language overview of the Dutch archaeological campaigns at Satricum, an ancient Italic town 60 km south of Rome, covering the temple of Mater Matuta and the famous Lapis Satricanus inscription naming a Publius Valerius (long associated with Publius Valerius Poplicola, one of the legendary founders of the Roman Republic).[From back cover] SATRICUM is the name of an ancient town which stood some 60 kms south of Rome. Roman historians mention its name more than once, mainly because of its stubborn resistance to Roman expansionism, but also for its famous temple dedicated to the goddess Mater Matuta.Contents: Ancient writers on Satricum; What archaeology tells us about Satricum; The Goddess Mater Matuta; What are Dutch archaeologists doing at Satricum?; Satricum today; A walk through the Museum and a look in the store rooms; short bibliography.