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walls still covered with plaster in some places. It was also perhaps used as a warehouse, given the nearby river port known as "dell'Olio". A smaller version of the substructures nearby expanded the central city area with a terrace.
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and has three fountains in alternating semicircular and rectangular niches. It is connected to the cistern inside the antiquarium Casale San
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The monumental nymphaeum, 50 m long, is part of a series of buildings that formed a monumental facade on the slope of the valley. It dates from late 1st c. BC and early 1st c. AD and is faced in
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who lived in the 5th century, the most important event that took place in its territory would be the bloody battle (50,000 dead) which took place in
Otriculum in winter 412-3 between
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both also shown in the Sala della
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adorned with precious coloured marbles and with statues and decorations including the gigantic Muses now preserved in the
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and of whom a corbel from the altar he erected to San Vittore, and a Dominic who took part in the councils of 595 and 601.
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in 308 BC. From this date that the city began to perform a strategic function as a border town between Umbria, the
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F. F. J. "Bowls by Popilius and Lapius." Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 17, no. 1 (1958): 21–40.
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