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POPULONIUM (Etruscan Pupluna)

POPULONIUM (See also:
ETRUSCAN
Etruscan Pupluna) , an See also:

ancient seaport See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

ETRURIA

Etruria, See also:

Italy, at the See also:

north end of the See also:

PENINSULAR

peninsular of See also:

MONTE

Monte Massoncello, at the See also:

south end of which is situated the town of See also:

PIOMBINO

Piombino (q.v.). The See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, almost the only Etruscan townbuilt directly on the See also:

sea, was situated on a lofty hills now crowned by a conspicuous See also:

MEDIEVAL

medieval See also:

castle and a poor See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

VILLAGE

village (Populonia). Considerable remains of its town walls, of large irregular, roughly rectangular blocks (the See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form is that of the natural splitting of the schistose See also:

SANDSTONE

sandstone), still exist, enclosing a See also:

CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)

circuit of about i z m. The remains existing within them are entirely See also:

ROMAN

Roman--a See also:

ROW, JOHN (c. 1525—1580)

row of vaulted substructions, a See also:

WATER

water See also:

RESERVOIR

reservoir and a See also:

MOSAIC (corresponding to Lat. opus musivum, from Gr. µovoeiov, an artificial grotto often decorated with mosaics; the word is only found in the sense of mosaic in late Greek, which generally uses k oXI yrlµa)

mosaic with representations of fishes. See also:

STRABO (born c. 63 n.c.)

Strabo mentions the existence here of a look-out See also:

TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower for 'the shoals of See also:

TUNNY (Thunnus thynnus)

tunny-See also:

fish. There are some tombs outside the town, some of which, ranging from the See also:

VILLANOVA

Villanova See also:

period (9th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C.) to the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the 3rd century B.C., were explored in 1908. In one, a large circular See also:

TOMB (Gr. Tuµ/3a, Tuµ(3os, probably allied to Lat. tumulus, literally a swelling, tumere, to swell)

tomb, were found three sepulchral couches in See also:

stone, carved in See also:

IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of See also:

wood, and a See also:

FINE

fine statuette in See also:

BRONZE

bronze of See also:

Ajax committing See also:

SUICIDE (from Lat. sui, of oneself, and cidium, from cued ere, to kill)

suicide. See also:

Close by was found a See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse See also:

COLLAR

collar with 14 bronze bells. The remains of a See also:

temple, devastated in ancient times (possibly by See also:

Dionysius of See also:

Syracuse in 384 B.C.), were also discovered, with fragments of See also:

ATTIC (i.e. "in the Attic style ")

Attic vases of the 5th century B.C., which had served as ex volos in it. Coins of the town have also been found in See also:

SILVER

silver and See also:

COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

copper. The See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron mines of See also:

ELBA (Gr. AiWaXla; Lat. Ilva)

Elba, and the See also:

TIN (Lat.- stannum, whence the chemical symbol " Sn "; atomic weight =117.6, 0=16)

tin and copper of the mainland, were owned and smelted by the See also:

PEOPLE

people of Populonia; hot springs too See also:

LAY

lay some 6 m. to the E. (See also:

AQUAE (Lat. for "waters'')

Aquae Populaniae) on the high road-Via See also:

AURELIA, VIA

Aurelia-along the See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

At this point a road branched off to Saena (See also:

SIENA

Siena). According to See also:

Virgil the town sent a contingent to the help of See also:

AENEAS

Aeneas, and it furnished Scipio with iron in 205 B.C. It offered considerable resistance to See also:

SULLA, LUCIUS CORNELIUS (138–78 B.C.)

Sulla, who took it by See also:

SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege; and from this See also:

DATES

dates its decline, which Strabo, who describes it well (v. 2, 6, p. 223), already notes as beginning, while four centuries later Rutilius describes it as in ruins. The See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour, however, continued to be of some importance, and the place was still an episcopal see in the See also:

time of See also:

Gregory the See also:

GREAT

Great. See G. See also:

DENNIS, JOHN (1657—1734)

Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (See also:

LONDON

London, 1883, ii. 212 sqq.) ; I. Falchi in Notizie degli Scavi (1903-1904); L. A. Milani, ibid.

(1908), 199 sqq.

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