Pyrgi
Ancient city · Italy
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 42.015, 11.963
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient Etruscan port in Lazio, Italy
History
Pyrgi (Pyrgus) 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.