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Sabratha amphitheater
Sabratha amphitheater: Roman amphitheater at Sabratha, Libya, built mid-2nd century AD of calcarenite, seating up to 20,000; distinct from the city's famous Roman theatre; abandoned after a 4th-century earthquake and spoiled in the 6th century.
Sabratha Roman Theater
The Sabratha Roman Theater is a Roman theater in the ancient city of Sabratha, on the coast of Libya, built in the late second century CE and among the best-preserved Roman theaters in the world.
Sacis ad Padum
Sacis ad Padum, a Roman road and river station in the Po delta on the via Popilia route (Tabula Peutingeriana), 12 miles from Augusta, near the Po branch Sagis, identified near Comacchio at Burchioletto.
Sacra Via
Sacra Via (Via Sacra), the oldest and most famous street of ancient Rome, ran about 500 m through the Roman Forum from the Capitoline to the Arch of Titus, carrying triumphal and religious processions.
Sacraria
Sacraria, a road station on the Roman Via Flaminia near Le Vene, Umbria (Pleiades 413292, Barrington Atlas 42 D3); name is plural of Latin sacrarium, a place keeping sacred objects.
Sacred Area of S. Omobono
Sacred Area of S. Omobono (Area Sacra di Sant'Omobono), Roman archaeological site in the Forum Boarium with twin temples of Fortuna and Mater Matuta over an Archaic temple of c. 580 BC, found in 1936.
Sacsayhuamán
Sacsayhuamán (Saqsaywaman), Inca ceremonial complex north of Cusco, Peru, begun under Pachakuteq; famed for 200-ton mortarless polygonal walls, a 2,997-hectare archaeological park, and debated fortress or Temple of the Sun function.
Saepta Iulia
Saepta Iulia (also Septa, Ovile): monumental marble voting enclosure in Rome's Campus Martius, planned by Caesar 54 B.C., completed by Agrippa 26 B.C., about 310 x 120 m, later used for gladiatorial games and as a luxury market.
Saint Hilarion Monastery/ Tell Umm Amer
Saint Hilarion Monastery / Tell Umm Amer (دير القديس هيلاريون / تل أم عامر) is a 4th-century Byzantine monastery site in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, the first monastic community in the Holy Land, inscribed by UNESCO and on the Danger List in 2024.
Saint-Martin-le-Bas, Gruissan
Saint-Martin-le-Bas, Gruissan: Roman and medieval coastal settlement on the Île Saint-Martin in the Narbonnaise lagoon, a possible avant-port of ancient Narbonne, with a 2,500 m² courtyard complex, probable lighthouse, and cisterns.
Saint-Michel tumulus
Saint-Michel tumulus (Tumulus de Carnac): giant Neolithic burial mound in Carnac, Brittany, over 30,000 m³, type of the Carnacean barrows, richly furnished central crypt dated to the mid-5th millennium BC.
Sainte-Colombe
Sainte-Colombe (Rhône), commune on the right bank of the Rhône facing Vienne, part of Roman Vienna; its 2016-2017 excavations, the 'petite Pompéi française', revealed a fire-preserved Gallo-Roman quarter with domus, mosaics, and shops. Also names of other French sites.
Salem/Salumias
Salem/Salumias (Sedima), an ancient place at Tel Shalem (Tell er-Radgha) in the Jordan Valley near Beth-Shean; biblical Salem of Melchizedek, Aenon of John the Baptist, and site of a Roman fort of legio VI Ferrata and Ala VII Phrygum.
Salisio
Salisio, ancient road station near Bad Salzig on the lower Moselle, Germany; Pleiades place 109319, Barrington Atlas 11 H2, attested 30 BC-AD 640, linked by conjectured road to Colonia Augusta Treverorum.
Salkhityn Am
Salkhityn Am (Салхитын ам) is an Early Xiongnu cemetery in Rashaant soum, Khövsgöl Province, northern Mongolia, excavated 2010–2012 under S. Ulziibayar; 31 tombs, distinctive horse offerings, Grave 7 mirror, and 11 sequenced genomes.
Saloca
Saloca, a Roman road station in Noricum on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Virunum and Aquileia, 11 Roman miles (17.6 km) from Virunum, identified with Krumpendorf, Austria; distinct from any other ancient place of similar name.
Salomacus
Salomacus (Salomacum), an ancient road station of Gallia Aquitania on the Antonine Itinerary road between Burdigala (Bordeaux) and Aquae Tarbellicae (Dax); traditionally identified with Salles, Gironde, an identification now questioned, with a proposed site near Le Barp.
Salona
Salone (Salona, Salonae), Roman capital of the province of Dalmatia at Solin near Split, Croatia, on the Jadro river. Colony from about 48/47 BC, largest ancient town on the eastern Adriatic, destroyed in the early 7th century.
Salsulae Fons
Salsulae Fons (Salsulis) was a Roman road station with a salt spring on the Via Domitia at modern Salses, France, near Narbonne; cited by Pomponius Mela and the Antonine Itinerary, 30 miles from Narbonne, with a castrum and ancient port.
Salt Mines of Maras
Salineras de Maras, or Salt Mines of Maras: about 4,500 prehispanic evaporation wells near Cusco, Peru, worked communally by Maras and Pichingoto families since before Inca times, marketed via Marasal S.A.
Saltus Burunitanus
Saltus Burunitanus: Roman imperial estate in the Bagradas valley, Tunisia, known from the 182 CE inscription (CIL VIII 10570) recording coloni's petition to Commodus against conductor Allius Maximus.
Saltus Neronianus
Saltus Neronianus, a large Roman imperial estate in the Oued Medjerda valley of northern Tunisia, named after Nero; formed from Statilius Taurus holdings, farmed under the lex Manciana, and documented by the Aïn el-Djemala and Aïn Wassel agrarian inscriptions.
Saltus Philomusianus
Saltus Philomusianus was a large Roman imperial estate in northwestern Tunisia, between Bulla Regia and Chimtou, chiefly remembered as the domain containing the imperial quarries of yellow Numidian marble.
Saltus Poctanensis P(h)osphorianus
Saltus Poctanensis P(h)osphorianus, also Posphorianus, a large Roman estate (saltus) in Numidia near Bordj Sabath, Algeria, known from a dedication by the freedman Q. Antistius Agathopus to Jupiter Saturnus and the estate's genius for the senatorial Antistii family of Thibilis.
Samarra (سامراء)
Samarra (سامرّاء), Iraq's Abbasid capital from 836 to 892, founded by al-Mu'tasim 130 km north of Baghdad; a 41.5 km archaeological site with the Great Mosque, Malwiya spiral minaret, and 80% still unexcavated, a UNESCO World Heritage in Danger site since 2007.
Šamaš temple (Khorsabad)
The Šamaš temple (Shamash temple) at Khorsabad, ancient Dur-Sharrukin, was one of six temples built by Sargon II (r. 721–705 BC) around a square courtyard on the palace terrace, identified by an inscription in Room 172's doorway.
Samnite Sanctuary at Pietrabbondante
Samnite Sanctuary at Pietrabbondante: major Italic cult and political center of the Pentri Samnites on Monte Saraceno, Molise, Italy; Oscan inscriptions, theatre-Temple B complex (c. 120-90 BCE), abandoned after the Social War.
San Agustín Archaeological Park
San Agustín Archaeological Park, Huila, Colombia: South America's largest group of megalithic funerary monuments and statues, made 1st-8th century AD, UNESCO World Heritage 1995, ICANH-managed since its 1931 creation.
San Cromazio Roman Villa
San Cromazio (Sito archeologico di San Cromazio, Santu Cromai) is an archaeological site at Villaspeciosa, South Sardinia: a Roman mansio with 3rd-century baths, a 4th-century church, and Sardinia's largest polychrome mosaic, about 160 square meters.
San Gervasio
San Gervasio, the principal Maya archaeological site of Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico; also possibly the ancient Tantun. Largest island settlement, Late Postclassic trade hub tied to Chichen Itza, linked by tradition to the goddess Ixchel.