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Tarquinii
[ tahr-kwin-ee-ahy ]
noun
- an ancient city of Etruria, in central Italy, NW of Rome: present-day Tarquinia on site.
Example Sentences
The 3rd Room— Has in the centre a large sarcophagus of nenfro, found at Tarquinii, in 1834, supporting a reclining figure of a Lucumo, with a scroll in his hand, "recalling the monuments of the middle ages."
The 11th Room— Is hung with paintings on canvas copied from the principal tombs of Vulci and Tarquinii.
All the paintings from Tarquinii are still to be seen on that site, though not in so perfect a state as they are here represented.
A boy with a bulla, sitting, from Tarquinii, is "supposed to represent Tages, the mysterious boy-god, who sprung from the furrows of that site."
Beginning from the right, on entering, they take the following order: From the Camera del Morto: Tarquinii.
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