Submitted for award of PhD September 2006. - King's College London

Mutilus, comes from the Social War, so this is equally unlikely. Perhaps arasne was the
name of a vereia.
The legend on the reverse of type no. 6, regvinum ravalanum, is in the genitive
plural, similar to nuvkrinum alafaternum, which suggests that it is an ethnic name.
Unfortunately, we know nothing about it. Cantilena suggests a link to Egvini, the Oscan
name of the Dioscuri, who are often associated with the cavalry. 837
It is possible that it is
the name of a group of cavalry, a type of vereia.
Although the coins of Nuceria Alfaterna used the Neapolitan weight standard, they
do not share the iconographic type of Apollo and the bull which was widespread in the
area of Naples, northern Campania, southern Latium and parts of Samnium. 838 Their
images instead recall the iconography of the coins of Tarentum. This may be seen as an
attempt to create a distance between the coinage of the rest of Campania, which was
influenced by Rome, and instead to create a link to the Greek world of Southern Italy.
There is no instrinsic reason to suppose that these coins were minted for a community
larger than Nuceria Alfaterna itself, probably to pay its own soldiers.
6.6.3. The Confederation of Cirta
Two points of Beloch's thesis relate to the gens Sittia. Firstly, because numerous
members of this gens are attested in Latin funerary inscriptions in the coastal towns of
the Nuceria region, Beloch argued that this gens played an important role in the political
life of the towns under the leadership of Nuceria. Conversely, outside the borders of the
837
Cantilena (1994) 13.
838
Cantilena (1994) 13.
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