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chap, xxx.] ETRUSCAN RELICS AT CIVITA VECCHIA. 3
in the Town-hall, mostly from Corneto,3 and some in the
house of Signor Guglielmi, an extensive proprietor of land
in the Roman Maremma,4 besides a collection of vases,
bronzes, and other portable articles in the shop of Signor
Bucci, in the Piazza, whom I can highly recommend for
lis uprightness and moderate charges.
Three miles from Civita Vecchia, on the road to Corneto,
it a spot called Cava della Scaglia, Etruscan tombs have
3een opened,5 which seem to have belonged to the neigh-
bouring Algse, though that place is known to us only as a
toman station.6 Its site is marked by Torre Nuova, on
the sea shore, three miles from Civita.7 The country tra-
versed on the way to Corneto is a desert of undulating
leath, overrun with lentiscus, myrtle, and dwarf cork-trees—
3 These have been placed here only
since 1843 ; and consist of sarcophagi
of nenfro "with recumbent figures on the
Eds, recently found in the Montarozzi;
Mid half a dozen female heads in stone,
painted in imitation of life, and very
Egyptian in character. Besides these,
there are sundry Roman eippi and
monumental tablets, among which will be
found the names of Pompeius and Cse-
sennius—families of Tarquinii, as has
been already shown (Vol. I. pp. 307,
368)—Veturius, which answers to the
Velthur in the Grotta delle Iscrizioni
(Vol. I. p. 340)—and several milestones,
probably of the Via Aurelia.
4 The collection in the house of Signor
uglielmi is composed of articles found
upon his own lands. One of the most
remarkable objects is an urn of nenfro,
found near Montalto, in 1840. It is in
the form of a little temple, supported on
Ionic-like columns, with a moulded door-
way at one end, and a male figure, in
ief, holding a wand and patera, at the
ier—probably representing the de-
d, whose name is inscribed in
Etruscan characters around him. In the
opposite tympanum is a human head set
in a flower; and the angles of the
pediments rest on lions' heads. Micali,
Mon. Ined. pp. 403—7, tav. LIX.
5 Excavations were made here in 1830
by Signor Bucci, but with no great suc-
cess. His attention was drawn to the
spot by a Figaro of Civita Vecchia, who,
fifteen years previous, had found there
a shoe of bronze, which he had esteemed
of no value, till a foreigner entering his
shop, seized upon it and carried it off,
leaving a napoleon in the palm of the
astonished barber.
6 MentionedintheMaritime Itinerary.
Ft mpra, Vol. I. p. 388.
7 Three miles to the north-east of
Civita Vecchia, on the road to the Allu-
miere, are the Bagni di Ferrata, the hot
springs lauded by Rutilius (I. 249) as
the Thermae Tauri, and identical with
the "Aquenses cognomine Taurini,"
mentioned by Pliny (III. 8) in his cata-
logue of Roman Colonies in Etruria,
which has inconsiderately been referred
to Acquapendente. See Vol. I. p. 501.
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in the Town-hall, mostly from Corneto,3 and some in the
house of Signor Guglielmi, an extensive proprietor of land
in the Roman Maremma,4 besides a collection of vases,
bronzes, and other portable articles in the shop of Signor
Bucci, in the Piazza, whom I can highly recommend for
lis uprightness and moderate charges.
Three miles from Civita Vecchia, on the road to Corneto,
it a spot called Cava della Scaglia, Etruscan tombs have
3een opened,5 which seem to have belonged to the neigh-
bouring Algse, though that place is known to us only as a
toman station.6 Its site is marked by Torre Nuova, on
the sea shore, three miles from Civita.7 The country tra-
versed on the way to Corneto is a desert of undulating
leath, overrun with lentiscus, myrtle, and dwarf cork-trees—
3 These have been placed here only
since 1843 ; and consist of sarcophagi
of nenfro "with recumbent figures on the
Eds, recently found in the Montarozzi;
Mid half a dozen female heads in stone,
painted in imitation of life, and very
Egyptian in character. Besides these,
there are sundry Roman eippi and
monumental tablets, among which will be
found the names of Pompeius and Cse-
sennius—families of Tarquinii, as has
been already shown (Vol. I. pp. 307,
368)—Veturius, which answers to the
Velthur in the Grotta delle Iscrizioni
(Vol. I. p. 340)—and several milestones,
probably of the Via Aurelia.
4 The collection in the house of Signor
uglielmi is composed of articles found
upon his own lands. One of the most
remarkable objects is an urn of nenfro,
found near Montalto, in 1840. It is in
the form of a little temple, supported on
Ionic-like columns, with a moulded door-
way at one end, and a male figure, in
ief, holding a wand and patera, at the
ier—probably representing the de-
d, whose name is inscribed in
Etruscan characters around him. In the
opposite tympanum is a human head set
in a flower; and the angles of the
pediments rest on lions' heads. Micali,
Mon. Ined. pp. 403—7, tav. LIX.
5 Excavations were made here in 1830
by Signor Bucci, but with no great suc-
cess. His attention was drawn to the
spot by a Figaro of Civita Vecchia, who,
fifteen years previous, had found there
a shoe of bronze, which he had esteemed
of no value, till a foreigner entering his
shop, seized upon it and carried it off,
leaving a napoleon in the palm of the
astonished barber.
6 MentionedintheMaritime Itinerary.
Ft mpra, Vol. I. p. 388.
7 Three miles to the north-east of
Civita Vecchia, on the road to the Allu-
miere, are the Bagni di Ferrata, the hot
springs lauded by Rutilius (I. 249) as
the Thermae Tauri, and identical with
the "Aquenses cognomine Taurini,"
mentioned by Pliny (III. 8) in his cata-
logue of Roman Colonies in Etruria,
which has inconsiderately been referred
to Acquapendente. See Vol. I. p. 501.
b2