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SUESSULA , an ancient town of Campania, Italy, in the plain 12 m. W. of the modern
Capua
century A.D., and was for a time the chief
Acerra
century thanthey now are, but traces of the theatre may still be seen, and debris of other buildings. Oscan tombs were excavated there between 1878 and 1886, and important finds of vases, bronzes, &c., have been made. The dead were generally buried within slabs of tufa arranged to form a kind of sarcophagus (see F. von Duhn in Romische Mitteilungen, 1887, p. 235 sqq.). Suessula lay on the line of the Via Popillia, which was here intersected by a road which ran from Neapolis through Acerrae, and on to the Via Appia, which it reached just west of the Caudine pass. On the hills above Cancello to the east
Claudius
Capua
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