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SATURNIA (mod. Saturnia)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 233 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SATURNIA (mod. Saturnia) , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Etruria See also:Italy, about 23 M. N.E. of See also:Orbetello and the See also:coast. See also:Dionysius of See also:Halicarnassus enumerates it among the towns first occupied by the Pelasgi and then by the Tuscans. A See also:Roman See also:colony was conducted there in 183 B.C., and it was a praefectura, but other-See also:wise little is known about it. Remains of the See also:city walls, in the polygonal See also:style, still exist, to which Roman See also:gates were added. Roman remains have also been discovered within the town, and remaijis of tombs outside, originally covered by tumuli, which have now disappeared, so that See also:Dennis wrongly took them for megalithic remains. See also:Pitigliano, some 12 .m. to the S.W., is another See also:Etruscan site. See G. Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (See also:London,1883), 1. 496; ii. 275; A.

Pasqui in Notizie degli scavi (1882), 52. (T.

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