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Sepinum
Altilia (bei Sepino)
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Sepinum is Saepinum, whose remarkably complete ruins lie at Altilia near Sepino in Molise. The Roman consul Papirius Cursor captured the Samnite town in 293 BC; later its walls, built under Tiberius, enclosed a forum, a temple and a theatre, and cloth fulling was an important trade. Inscriptions name its guilds and cults, among them a college of girl basket-bearers, who carried offerings in religious processions.