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404 CASTEL D'ASSO.
also mentions a spot called Paratula, which was ex-
cavated in 1493, in the presence of Pope Alexander
VI., out of which were taken many statues in stone
and marble, with Etruscan inscriptions, and the ac-
counts of which exist in the public library at
Sienna. We had no time at Sienna to examine these
accounts, which I believe to be in manuscript. They
were written by Sigismondo Tizi di Castiglione, a
Florentine, in the 1st vol. of the History of Sienna,
and are said to be very interesting and curious. It is
possible that the statues themselves may remain in
the museum at Viterbo, but this point I could not as-
certain.
The very rarest of the Italian coins have also been
found hereabouts, as might reasonably have been
expected, from the seat of national assembly and of
greatest foreign resort. The first of them was an
assis of Servius Tullus, with the word " Roma" upon
it, in ancient Etruscan letters, bearing a front face of
Rome upon the one side and an ox upon the reverse,
which devices refer to some league between Rome
and an Etruscan state or city, at a time when
the stamp of Rome was so new that it required to
be named in order to be recognised. Another of
these coins was found more towards Monte Fias-
cone. At Viterbo there was also an assis found with
a tripod on one side and a trident on the other,
the emblem of a union between religion and com-
merce. In two or three other tombs were found a
different sort of money. The pieces are of bronze and
triangular, each piece weighing five pounds, with a
also mentions a spot called Paratula, which was ex-
cavated in 1493, in the presence of Pope Alexander
VI., out of which were taken many statues in stone
and marble, with Etruscan inscriptions, and the ac-
counts of which exist in the public library at
Sienna. We had no time at Sienna to examine these
accounts, which I believe to be in manuscript. They
were written by Sigismondo Tizi di Castiglione, a
Florentine, in the 1st vol. of the History of Sienna,
and are said to be very interesting and curious. It is
possible that the statues themselves may remain in
the museum at Viterbo, but this point I could not as-
certain.
The very rarest of the Italian coins have also been
found hereabouts, as might reasonably have been
expected, from the seat of national assembly and of
greatest foreign resort. The first of them was an
assis of Servius Tullus, with the word " Roma" upon
it, in ancient Etruscan letters, bearing a front face of
Rome upon the one side and an ox upon the reverse,
which devices refer to some league between Rome
and an Etruscan state or city, at a time when
the stamp of Rome was so new that it required to
be named in order to be recognised. Another of
these coins was found more towards Monte Fias-
cone. At Viterbo there was also an assis found with
a tripod on one side and a trident on the other,
the emblem of a union between religion and com-
merce. In two or three other tombs were found a
different sort of money. The pieces are of bronze and
triangular, each piece weighing five pounds, with a