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TARQUINII (mod. Corneto Tarquinia, q.v.)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 430 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
TARQUINII (mod. Corneto Tarquinia, q.v.) , an
ancient
 
city
  of
Etruria
 ,
Italy
 , situated on a hill overlooking the S.W.
coast
  of
Italy
 , about 5 M. N.W. of it. The site of the
Roman
 
town
  is now deserted, its last remains having been destroyed by the inhabitants of Corneto in 13o7. Scanty remains of walling and of buildings of the
Roman
  period exist above ground; traces of a large rectangular platform were found in 1876, and
part
  of the thermae in 1829; it occupied the summit of a hill defended by ravines, called Piano di Civita. It seems probable,
See L. Dasti, Notizie Storiche archeologiche di Tarquinia e Corneto (Rome, 1878) ; G.
Dennis
 , Cities and Cemeteries of
Etruria
  (London, 1883), i. 301 sqq.; Notizie degli Scavi, passim, especially 1885, 513 sqq.; E. Bormann in Corp. Incr. Lat., xi. (
Berlin
 , 1888), p. 510 sqq.; G. Korte, s.v. " Etrusker " in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyklopadie, vi. 73o sqq. (T. As.)


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