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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 192 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VOLCI , or Vunc1, an See also:

ancient See also:town of See also:Etruria. The See also:circuit of the walls See also:measures about 4 m., and scanty traces of them and of See also:Roman buildings within them still exist. The See also:Ponte della Badia over the Fiora, a See also:bridge with a See also:main See also:arch of 66 ft. span, 98 ft. above the stream, is also Roman. An See also:aqueduct passes over it. The former See also:wealth of the town is mainly proved by the discoveries made in its extensive See also:necropolis from 1828 onwards—See also:Greek vases, bronzes and other remains—many of which are now in the Vatican. By 1856 over 15,000 tombs had, it was calculated, been opened. These were entirely subterranean, and little is now to be seen on the site but a See also:great See also:tumulus, the Cucumella, and a few smaller ones. The frescoes from the See also:Francois See also:tomb, discovered in 1857, illustrating Greek and See also:Etruscan myths, are now in the Museo Torlonia at See also:Rome. Volci was one of the twelve towns of Etruria. Coruncanius triumphed over the See also:people of Vulsinii and Volci in 28o B.C., and the See also:colony of See also:Cosa was founded in their territory. This seems to have led to the decline of the See also:city, and it does not seem to have been of great importance in the Roman See also:period, though it became an episcopal see. See G.

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Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (See also:London, 1883), i. 437, ii. 503; S. Gsell, Fouilles dons la necropole de Vulci (See also:Paris, 1891), for the excavations of 1889 (with copious references to earlier publications). (T.

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