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VETULONIUM, or VETULONIA (See also:Etruscan Veltuna) , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Etruria, See also:Italy, the site of which is probably occupied by the See also:modern See also:village of Vetulonia, which up to 1887 See also:bore the name of See also:Colonna. It lies 1130 ft. above See also:sea-level, about so m. See also:direct N.W. of See also:Grosseto, on the N.E. See also:side of the hills which project from the See also:flat See also:Maremma and See also:form the promontory of See also:Castiglione. The See also:place is little mentioned in ancient literature, though Silius Italicus tells us that it was hence that the See also:Romans took their magisterial insignia (See also:fasces, See also:curule See also:chair,- See also:purple toga and brazen trumpets), and it was undoubtedly one of the twelve cities of Etruria. Its site was not identified before 1881, and the See also:identification has been denied in various See also:works by C. Dotto dei Dauli, who places it on the See also:Poggio Castiglione near See also:Massa Marittima, where scanty remains of buildings (possibly of See also:city walls) have also been found. This site seems to agree better with the indications of See also:medieval documents. But certainly an Etruscan city was situated on the See also:hill of Colonna, where there are remains of city walls of massive See also:limestone, in almost See also:horizontal courses. The See also:objects discovered in its extensive See also:necropolis, where over See also:i000 tombs have been excavated, are now in the museums of Grosseto and See also:Florence. The most important were surrounded by tumuli, which still form a prominent feature in the landscape. See G. See also:Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (See also:London, 1883), ii. 263; Notizie degli Scavi, passim; I.

Falchi, Ricerche di Vetulonia (See also:

Prato, 1881), and other works, especially Vetulonia e la sua necropoli antichissima (Florence, 1891); G. Sordini, Vetulonia (See also:Spoleto, 1894) and references. (T.

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