Samnite warrior by Giuseppe Guastalla, 1922
Museo Nazionale Romano
Terme di Diocleziano
Viale Einaudi
Rome, May 2019
“The Samnites (Oscan: Safineis) were an ancient Italic people who lived in Samnium, which is located in modern inland Abruzzo, Molise, and Campania in south-central Italy. An Oscan-speaking people, who originated as an offshoot of the Sabines, they formed a confederation consisting of four tribes: the Hirpini, Caudini, Caraceni, and Pentri. Ancient Greek historians considered the Umbri as the ancestors of the Samnites. Their migration was in a southward direction, according to the rite of ver sacrum.” (Samnites, Wikipedia)
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