Musarna

Musarna
Shown within Lazio
Location Comune di Viterbo, Italy
Region Lazio
Coordinates 42°24′43.9848″N 11°58′35.673″E / 42.412218000°N 11.97657583°E / 42.412218000; 11.97657583
Type Settlement
History
Cultures Etruscan
Site notes
Excavation dates 1983-present
Archaeologists Henri Broise; Vincent Jolivet
Condition ruined
Public access no

Musarna is an Etruscan settlement located approximately 10 km west of Viterbo, Italy.[1] The site was discovered in 1849 and has been the site of excavations carried out by the École française de Rome since 1983.[2]

During the Hellenistic period the settlement was surrounded by a fortification wall.[3]

The third century BC stone sarcophagus of Larth Thvetlie, son of Arnth, is housed in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.[4][5]

Sources

References

  1. Harris, W., DARMC, R. Talbert, S. Gillies, T. Elliott, J. Becker. "Places: 413217 (Musarna)". Pleiades. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
  2. Broise, H. and V. Jolivet. 1997. "Musarna (Viterbe). Le site étrusco-romain." MEFRA 109:443-48.
  3. Lorenzo Quilici (1 January 2001). Fortificazioni antiche in Italia: età repubblicana. L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. pp. 69–. ISBN 978-88-8265-158-9.
  4. Jean MacIntosh Turfa (1 January 2011). Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 55–. ISBN 1-934536-25-3.
  5. http://www.penn.museum/collections/object/63978 Sarcophagus MS3488A

Coordinates: 42°24′43.9848″N 11°58′35.673″E / 42.412218000°N 11.97657583°E / 42.412218000; 11.97657583

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