Musarna is an Etruscan settlement located approximately 10 km west of
Viterbo, Italy. The site was discovered in 1849 and has been the site of excavations carried out by the
École française de Rome
The École française de Rome (EFR) is a French research institute for history, archaeology, and the social sciences; overseen by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and a division of the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et d ...
since 1983.
During the
Hellenistic period
In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 3 ...
the settlement was surrounded by a fortification wall.
The third century BC stone
sarcophagus
A sarcophagus (plural sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a box-like funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried. The word ''sarcophagus'' comes from the Greek ...
of Larth Thvetlie, son of Arnth, is housed in the
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
[http://www.penn.museum/collections/object/63978 Sarcophagus MS3488A
]
Sources
*
Andreau, Jean, H. Broise, V. Jolivet ''et al''. ed. 2002–present.
Musarna'.
eries Rome: École française de Rome.;
* de Cazanove, O., V. Jolivet. 1984. "Musarna (Viterbe). La cité étrusque" ''MEFRA'' 96:530-4.
References
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Etruscan sites
Archaeological sites in Lazio