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George Dennis:
Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria

From the cover of the 1848 edition, a virtual antiquity created by Dennis. It is a hybrid of two Etruscan artifacts: a mirror, and the handle of a patera in the Vatican Museums. (See chapter 59, note 93.)

As almost always, I retyped the text rather than scanning it: not only to minimize errors prior to proofreading, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if successful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.)

I ran a first proofreading pass immediately after entering each chapter, so that the text of all the chapters is quite good already. I've now started final proofreading: in the table of contents below, chapters whose text I believe to be completely errorfree are shown on blue backgrounds.

Edition Used

I am keying the text by hand from the original edition, in two volumes, John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1848.

a Since Dennis wrote, it has been proved that Cosa, despite being in Etruscan territory, was never an Etruscan town, rather was founded by the Romans.

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b Current consensus is that what Dennis describes is not Vetulonia; it is, however, an Etruscan town, and has been partly excavated. Dennis's chapter is thus a mixture of information about ancient Vetulonia, and the finds at the place now known as Doganella; it is up to us to read carefully and untangle the two. For further information about the latter, see this page (by Maria-Grazia Celuzza, one of the foremost names in modern Etruscan archaeology).

Images with borders lead to more information. The thicker the border, the more information. (Details here.)
My warm thanks to Cornelis van Eykelen for a lot of careful proofreading.
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