Pyrgi
Etruscan town and port in Latium / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the ancient Etruscan port. For the Greek village, see Pyrgi, Greece. For the town of ancient Elis, Greece, see Pyrgi (Elis).
Pyrgi (Pyrgus in Etruscan) was originally an ancient Etruscan town and port in Latium, central Italy, to the north-west of Caere. Its location is now occupied by the borough of Santa Severa. It is notable for the discovery here of the gold tablets, an exceptional epigraphic document with rare texts in Phoenician and Etruscan languages, and also the exceptional terracotta pediment statues from the temple.
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