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Encyclopedia Britannica



VOLCI

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 192 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
VOLCI , or Vunc1, an ancient town of Etruria. The circuit of the walls
measures
  about 4 m., and scanty traces of them and of Roman buildings within them still exist. The Ponte della Badia over the Fiora, a
bridge
  with a
main
 
arch
  of 66 ft. span, 98 ft. above the stream, is also Roman. An aqueduct passes over it. The former wealth of the town is mainly proved by the discoveries made in its extensive necropolis from 1828 onwardsGreek vases, bronzes and other remainsmany of which are now in the Vatican. By 1856 over 15,000 tombs had, it was calculated, been opened. These were entirely subterranean, and little is now to be seen on the site but a
great
  tumulus, the Cucumella, and a few smaller ones. The frescoes from the Francois
tomb
 , discovered in 1857, illustrating
Greek
  and
Etruscan
  myths, are now in the Museo Torlonia at Rome. Volci was one of the twelve towns of Etruria. Coruncanius triumphed over the
people
  of Vulsinii and Volci in 28o B.C., and the colony of
Cosa
  was founded in their territory. This seems to have led to the decline of the city, and it does not seem to have been of
great
  importance in the Roman period, though it became an episcopal see.
See G. Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (London, 1883), i. 437, ii. 503; S. Gsell, Fouilles dons la necropole de Vulci (Paris, 1891), for the excavations of 1889 (with copious references to earlier publications). (T. As.)


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