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George Dennis:
Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria

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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.)

Chapter
Preface
Introduction It runs to 100 pages of print: I present it in 2 webpages, plus the:
Appendix on the Classification of Etruscan Vases
1	Veii — The City
2	Veii — The Cemetery
3	Castel Giubileo: Fidenae
4	Sutri: Sutrium
5	Nepi: Nepete
6	Civita Castellana: Falerii Veteres
7	Falleri: Falerii (Novi)
8	Fescennium
9	Orte: Horta
10	Feronia and Capena
11	Monte Cimino: Mons Ciminus
12	Viterbo: Surrina
13	Ferento: Ferentinum
14	Bomarzo
15	Castel d'Asso: Castellum Axia
16	Norchia: Orcle?
17	Bieda: Blera
18	Corneto: Tarquinii — The Cemetery (This chapter runs to 96 pages of print: I present it in 2 webpages)
19	Corneto: Tarquinii — The City
20	Graviscae
21	Vulci
22	Musignano
23	Toscanella: Tuscania
24	Statonia
25	Pitigliano and Sorano
26	Sovana: Suana
27	Bolsena: Volsinii (sort of, according to Dennis)
28	Monte Fiascone: Fanum Voltumnae?
29	Orvieto
30	Civita Vecchia: Centum Cellae
31	Santa Marinella: Punicum
32	Santa Severa: Pyrgi
33	Cervetri: Agylla or Caere
34	Palo: Alsium
35	Luni: Luna
36	Pisa: Pisae
37	Firenze: Florentia
38	Fiesole: Faesulae
39	Siena: Sena
40	Volterra: Volaterrae — The City
41	Volterra: Volaterrae — The Museum
42	The Maremma
43	Populonia
44	Roselle: Rusellae
45	Telamone: Telamon
46	Orbetello
47	Ansedonia: Cosaa
48	Vetulonia: Vetulonia (according to Dennis)b
49	Saturnia: Saturnia
50	Chiusi: Clusium — The City
51	Chiusi: Clusium — The Cemetery
52	Chiusi: Clusium — Poggio Gajella
53	Cetona and Sarteano
54	Chianciano and Montepulciano
55	Arezzo: Arretium
56	Cortona: Cortona
57	Perugia: Perusia — The City
58	Perugia: Perusia — The Cemetery
59	Rome

Technical Details

Edition Used

I keyed the text by hand from the original edition, in two volumes, John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1848. It has been in the public domain for many decades.

Proofreading

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 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 pretty good already. The final proofreading is underway: in the table of contents above, chapters I believe to be completely errorfree are shown on blue backgrounds.

Notes:

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 the scholarly literature and especially the work of Etruscan specialist Dr. Maria-Grazia Celuzza; once online, but with the continued shrinkage of the Web, no longer.

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My warm thanks to
Cornelis van Eykelen
for a lot of careful proofreading.

George Dennis: Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria

Technical Details

Edition Used

Proofreading

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George Dennis:
Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria