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Title: Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Gray, Elizabeth Caroline Johnstone, 1800-1887
Subjects: Tombs
Publisher: London : J. Hatchard and Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ld boar. 340 CHAPTER VII. CiEItE OR AGYLLA. I think I have seldom felt better pleased than whenour carriage turned off from the high road about sixmiles beyond Monterone, and we found ourselveson the way to Cervetri. Though we met with no acci-dent, I certainly do not recommend this road to suchvehicles as usually go by the name of carriages inEngland, by reason of a very steep and stony ascentclose to the town, and of sundry ditches before arriv-ing at this ascent. One of our party, pointing tothe height, which by this time the reader will per-ceive to be the site of every Etruscan town, said tome, Do you not see the necropolis? I answered Yes ; but in truth I did not know which it \v;is,for I looked for something remarkable in appear-ance, while it was only visible as one of the many un-even eminences towards which we were driving. Ido not believe that the great cemetery of this placecan be seen from the side on which we approached,a-^ it stands beyond and behind the town ; but ano-
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&. © 1 Lid \ on c , k k a CERE OR AGYLLA. 341 ther burying-place, which consisted of the tombs ofdistinguished persons only, was on the same sidewith ourselves, and seemed to me like a height onwhich cones had been broken down. Cervetri hashad three distinct existences, and has borne threeseparate names, which I beg the reader to keep inmind, when I give it any other appellation than theone it now bears. We find here earlier traces ofcivilization than in any other spot in Italy, and itwas first called Agylla under the naturalizedPelasgians, then Caere under the conquering Etrus-cans, and lastly Cervetri, after Caere had graduallydecayed under the Romans, who placed a colony oftheir own about two miles from the site, which theyalso called by the name of Caere or Cere, a nameremaining at this hour to puzzle travellers. Agylla-Caere then became Caere or Cere-Vetere, and isso termed by the writers of the middle ages, and inmany papal bulls ; and now it has become Cervetri;whilst the

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