Acquarossa, Italy

Acquarossa

Architectural terracotta from Acquarossa
Shown within Lazio
Location	Comune di Viterbo, Lazio, Italy
Region	Lazio
Type	Settlement
History
Periods	Archaic
Cultures	Etruscan
Site notes
Excavation dates	1960s-1970s
Archaeologists	Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma
Website

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

1. The Etruscans, Graeme Barker & Tom Rasmussen, page 299
2. Harris, W.; DARMC, R. Talbert; S. Gillies; T. Elliott; J. Becker (8 February 2020). "Places: 412987 (Acquarossa)". Pleiades. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
3. "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
4. Larissa Bonfante (1986). Etruscan Life and Afterlife: A Handbook of Etruscan Studies. Wayne State University Press. pp. 195–. ISBN   0-8143-1813-4.
5. Carl Eric Östenberg (1975). Case estrusche di Acquarossa. Multigrafica Editrice.
6. 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.

External links

• Information about the excavations

42°29′N12°08′E / 42.483°N 12.133°E / 42.483; 12.133