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The cippus aballanus was found in the territory of the ancient Samnite city of Abella (hence the name) among the ruins of the castle. It was later brought to the town and placed at the threshold of a dwellinge and is now kept in the Archiepiscopal Seminary of Nola. MOlto important for the history of Italic epigraphy.The cippus is a limestone slab 192.5 cm high, 55 cm wide and 27.5 cm thick. The text, which is quite long, is pertinent to the treaty concluded between the cities of Abella and Nola and having as its object a shrine to Hercules built in common territory; perhaps the treaty was drawn up on the occasion of a reorganization of the cult. The act appears to be stipulated between two magistrates (meddix) and describes the boundaries of the shrine, its properties, and building regulations inside and outside the sacred enclosure, also indicating the boundary between the territories of the two cities.
