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Encyclopedia Britannica



VOLSINII

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 198 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
VOLSINII , an ancient town of Etruria, Italy. The older Volsinii occupied in all probability the isolated tufa
rock
 , so strongly defended by nature, upon which in Roman times stood the town which Procopius (B.G. ii. 11 seq.) calls O'pOiOevros (Urbs fetus, the modern Orvieto). This conjecture, first made' by O. Muller, has been generally accepted by modern archaeologists; and it is a strong point in its favour that the
bishop
  of Orvieto in 595 signs himself episcopus civitatis Bulsiniensis (Gregor. Magn. Registr. v. 57a; cf. ii. u, vi. 27). It had, and needed, no outer walls, being surrounded on all sides except the S.V. by abrupt tufa cliffs; but a massive
wall
  found by excavation on the S.W. side of the town may have belonged to the
acropolis
 . No remains of antiquity are to be seen within the city; but at the foot of the hill on the N. a large
Etruscan
  necropolis was found in 1874, dating from the 5th century B.C. The tombs, constructed of blocks of stone and arranged in rows divided by passages (like houses in a town), often had the name of the deceased on the facade. Many painted vases, &c., were found; some of the best are in the Museo Civico at Orvieto. Tombs with paintings have also been found to the W. of the town on the way to Bolsena.
Volsinii was reputed the richest of the twelve cities ofEtruria. Wars between Volsinii and Rome are mentioned in 392, 308 and 294 B.C., and in 26564 B.C. the Romans assisted the inhabitants against their former slaves, who had successfully asserted themselves against their masters and took the town, Fulvius Flaccus gained a
triumph
  for his victory, and it was probably then that the statue of Vertumnus which stood in the Vicus Tuscus at Rome was brought from Volsinii. Zonaras states that the city was destroyed and removed elsewhere, though the old site continued apparently to be inhabited, to judge from the
inscriptions
  found there. The new city was certainly situated on the hills on the N.E. bank of the Lake of Bolsena (Lacus Volsiniensis), 12 M. W.S.W. of Orvieto, where many remains of antiquity have been found, on and above the site of the modern Bolsena (q.v.). These remains consist of
Etruscan
  tombs, the sacred enclosure of the goddess Nortia, with votive objects and coins ranging from the beginning of the 3rd century B.C. to the middle of the 3rd century A.D., remains of Roman houses, &c., and an
amphitheatre
  of the imperial period (E. Gabrici in Monumenti dei Linei, xvi., 1906, 169 sqq., and in Notizie degli Scavi, 1906, 59 sqq.).
The history of the new Volsinii is somewhat scanty. Sejanus, the favourite of Tiberius, and Musonius Rufus the Stoic were natives of the place. The earliest dated inscription from the cemetery of S. Christina (discovered with its subterranean church in 188o81) belongs to A.D. 376 and the first known
bishop
  of Volsinii to A.D. 499. In the next century, however, the see was transferred to Orvieto. Etruscan tombs have been found on the Isola Bisentina, in the lake; and on the west bank was the town of. Visentium, Roman
inscriptions
  belonging to which have been found. The site is marked by a medieval castle bearing the name Bisenzo.
See E. Bormann in Corp. Inscr. Latin. xi., 1888, pp. 423 sqq.; Notizie degli Scavi, passim; G. Dennis, op. cit. (ii. 18 sqq.).
(T. As.)


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