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TUSCANIA
The happy topographic position, between
the sea, the lake of Bolsena and the interior, where they were to converge
different streets, made of Tuscania one of the largest cities in the
Lucumone of Tarquinia.
The town was on the hill of S. Peter the dominant Marta; many small
villages around the giving rise to many necropolis.
His
story unfolds from the end of the century. a.C. to the Roman Empire with
greater prosperity in the first course of the sixth and again in IV - III
century. a.C. even when using the commercial opportunities offered by the
passage of Consular Clodia, enhances agriculture and became the center of
craft to produce in nenfro figured sarcophagi and terracotta.
Numerous and rich in monuments of the
necropolis always kind with rock tombs, even in more environments, carved
and decorated in the sixth century, with major hypogeous gentilizi filled
with sarcophagi (Vipinana, 27, Statlane, 50, Ätna, Curuna) in IV - III
sec. a.C. The most important are those of Peschiera with a large mound and
the tomb of Dado (VI cent. BC). |
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