Acquarossa or Fosso Acqua Rossa is the modern name of the location of an ancient Etruscan settlement abandoned or destroyed in the second half of the sixth century BC.[1] Located near Viterbo, in Etruria,[2] was excavated by the Swedish Institute at Rome in the 1960s and 1970s.[3] An elite complex similar to the Regia in Rome was excavated at the site.[4][5][6]
References
- ^ The Etruscans, Graeme Barker & Tom Rasmussen, page 299
- ^ Harris, W.; DARMC, R. Talbert; S. Gillies; T. Elliott; J. Becker (8 February 2020). "Places: 412987 (Acquarossa)". Pleiades. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
- ^ "ACQUAROSSA Italy." In Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0006%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DA%3Aentry+group%3D1%3Aentry%3Dacquarossa
- ^ Larissa Bonfante (1986). Etruscan Life and Afterlife: A Handbook of Etruscan Studies. Wayne State University Press. pp. 195–. ISBN 0-8143-1813-4.
- ^ Carl Eric Östenberg (1975). Case estrusche di Acquarossa. Multigrafica Editrice.
- ^ Acquarossa: Results of Excavations Conducted by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies at Rome and the Soprintendenza Alle Antichità Dell'Etruria Meridionale. Svenska institutet i Rom. 1981. ISBN 9789170420801.
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