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Encyclopedia Britannica



COSA

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 213 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
COSA , an ancient city of Etruria, on the S.W.
coast
  of Italy, close to the Via Aurelia, 42 M. E.S.E. of the
modern
  town of
Orbetello
 . Apparently it was not an independent
Etruscan
  town, but was founded as a colony by the Romans in the territory of the Volceientes, whom they had recently conquered, in 273 B.C. The town was strongly fortified, and the walls, about a mile in circuit, with three
gates
 , and seventeen projecting rectangular towers at intervals, are in places preserved to a height of over 30 ft. on the outside, and 15 on the inside. The lower
part
  is built of polygonal, the upper of rectangular, blocks, and the masonry is of equal fineness all through, so that a difference of date cannot be assumed; such a
change
  of technique is not without parallel in
Greece
  (F. Noack in Romische Mitteilungen, 1897, 194). Within the city no remains are visible. The place was of importance as a fortress; it was approached by a branch road which diverged from the Via Aurelia at the post station of Succosa, at the foot of the hill on which the town stood. The harbour, too, was of some importance. In the 5th
century
  we hear of it as deserted, and in the 9th a town called Ansedonia took its place for a short time, but itself soon perished, though it has left its name to the ruins.
See G. Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (London, 1883), ii. 245. (T. As.)


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