TERVENTUM
(Trivento) Isernia prov., Molise, Italy.
This was a Roman municipium in the territory
of the Pentri Samnites. It was established in the course
of the 1st c. B.C. after the social war to provide for
the administration of the Samnite territories newly incorporated into the Roman state. It occupies an elevated position dominating the valley of the Trigno, and is near important Samnite sanctuaries at Pietrabbondante and Schiavi d'Abruzzo. The modern town is superimposed on the ancient, and though no buildings remain visible, numerous epigraphic documents are preserved. In
the surrounding countryside agricultural settlements (villae) from the late Republican and Imperial periods have
been identified at Castel Guidone and Roccavivara.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
EAA 7 (1966) 996 (A. La Regina); M.
Matteini Chiari,
Quaderni dell'Istituto di Topografia Antica dell'Università di Roma 6 (1974) 143-82.
A. LA REGINA
