Historical place profile

Hamae

Hamae is an ancient site of Campania located between Capua and Cumae, although its precise location is difficult to fix. The people of Capua gathered there for a solemn religious festival.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:432871
Catalogue ID
pleiades:432871
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
40.880458, 14.071241
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Hamae is an ancient site of Campania located between Capua and Cumae, although its precise location is difficult to fix. The people of Capua gathered there for a solemn religious festival.

Geographic evidence

The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.

Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 F4 Hamae

Source and reuse

This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.

Research path

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