Historical place profile
Pyrgi
Pyrgi is an ancient Etruscan port city on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy. A Roman colony was established at the site by 191 B.C. In 1964, the bilingual 'Pyrgi Plaques' were discovered during the course of excavations.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:433061
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:433061
- Place type
- archaeological-site, port, sanctuary, settlement, temple-2
- Coordinates
- 42.015526, 11.962700
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Pyrgi is an ancient Etruscan port city on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy. A Roman colony was established at the site by 191 B.C. In 1964, the bilingual 'Pyrgi Plaques' were discovered during the course of excavations.
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 44 A1 Pyrgi
Source and reuse
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Research path
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