Historical place profile
Musarna
Musarna is an ancient Etruscan settlement discovered in 1849 just west of Viterbo, Italy. The École française de Rome has been conducting excavations at the site since 1983.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:413217
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:413217
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 42.412218, 11.976576
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Musarna is an ancient Etruscan settlement discovered in 1849 just west of Viterbo, Italy. The École française de Rome has been conducting excavations at the site since 1983.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 B4 Musarna
Source and reuse
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Research path
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