. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. upplies the following additional information: The city of Etruria most connected with Romein early times was Tarquinia, between which andRome there must have been a carriage-road, evenbefore the reign of Tarquinius Priscus. The dateof its foundation was 1513 b. c. Others, however,say 432 before Rome, or 1186 b. c, which is themore probable. The stone employed in the build-ing of the walls is calcareous, but yet so exceedingly 10 260 TARQUINIA. soft, that it is, perhaps, more easily cut than thecommon tufo, so that no argument can be foundedon any s
. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. upplies the following additional information: The city of Etruria most connected with Romein early times was Tarquinia, between which andRome there must have been a carriage-road, evenbefore the reign of Tarquinius Priscus. The dateof its foundation was 1513 b. c. Others, however,say 432 before Rome, or 1186 b. c, which is themore probable. The stone employed in the build-ing of the walls is calcareous, but yet so exceedingly 10 260 TARQUINIA. soft, that it is, perhaps, more easily cut than thecommon tufo, so that no argument can be foundedon any similarity between their construction andthat of the Pelasgic cities. The walls are parallelo-grams, and are almost all constructed with softstone. Very few of the blocks retain their originalposition, but are chiefly to be found under theprecipices, or scattered about on the of construction is, however, percep-tible in some parts, as is evident from the subjoinedspecimen, taken from what was once the citadel orpalace. Corneto was probably either the Cort Nossa, orthe Cort Enebra of Livy, commonly read Cortuosaand Contcnebra, two forts of the Tarquinienses. Pos-sibly Cort may mean a castle. One of them stoodprobably upon the opposite side of the stream. Tarquinia is placed upon a nearly flat or tablehill, shaped like the letter L, the top of the letterbeinjr to the west, and the end of it to the these two points were two castles,—Civitclla atthe west, and Castellina at the north. The site ofthe latter is now occupied by a ruined is defended by a high precipice roundnearly the whole of its circuit, so that walls werescarcely necessary. Its gates were apparently six, TARQUINIA. 261 one of which on the north side seems to havelooked towards Toscanella, (anciently Tuscania,)with a sort of mound and parapets which formed anapproach across a ravine ; a third on the east mighthave been of less consequence ; a fourth on the sameside
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