Tarquinii

[ tahr-kwin-ee-ahy ]

noun

1. 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."

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The 11th Room— Is hung with paintings on canvas copied from the principal tombs of Vulci and Tarquinii.

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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.

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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."

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Beginning from the right, on entering, they take the following order: From the Camera del Morto: Tarquinii.

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