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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pyrgi (Italy). Pyrgi (Pyrgus in Etruscan) was originally an ancient Etruscan town and port in Latium, central Italy...
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    The Pyrgi Tablets (dated c. 500 BC) are three golden plates inscribed with a bilingual Phoenician–Etruscan dedicatory text. They are the oldest historical...
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    Pyrgi (Greek: Πυργί, Greek pronunciation: [pirˈʝi]) is a village on the Greek island of Chios, known as the "painted village" on account of the decoration...
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    reproduction. As part of a large Tuscan style temple, the north-located shrine at Pyrgi dedicated to Uni was built in approximately 500 BC, and neighboured a smaller...
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    northwest of Rome. It includes the beach resort of Santa Severa (the ancient Pyrgi), and a medieval castle. In antiquity, Santa Marinella was the site of Punicum...
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    cities of the Etruscan League. Its sea port and monumental sanctuary at Pyrgi was important for overseas trade. Today, the area of Cerveteri is best known...
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    the liber linteus. She was especially worshipped at Caere's harbour of Pyrgi, where a temple was dedicated to her and a singular series of "daybreak...
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    Etruscan Texts of the Pyrgi Golden Tablets: Certainties and Uncertainties". In Bellelli, Vincenzo; Xella, Paolo (eds.). Le lamine di Pyrgi: Nuovi studi sulle...
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    Waste container typically used in American public schools. Garbage can in Pyrgi (Chios). The cover is locked to prevent inserting large items. Bin bug Clever...
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    to the underworld. Catha is also the goddess of the south sanctuary at Pyrgi, Italy. She is known as Leucothea in ancient Greek. She is often seen with...
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  • 691539°E / 37.411551; 21.691539 Pyrgus or Pyrgos (Ancient Greek: Πύργος) or Pyrgi or Pyrgoi (Πύργοι) was the most southerly town of Triphylia in ancient Elis...
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    castle facing the sea, where the ancient Etruscan port of Pyrgi was once located. The Pyrgi Tablets were found here in 1964. Medici: Masters of Florence...
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    at the shrine of Pyrgi included sacred prostitution, performed by the "scorta Pyrgensia", the prostitutes of Pyrgi. The shrine of Pyrgi was a wealthy one...
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  • Apollo Soranus or Apollo Soractis. These theonyms were also associated on Pyrgi inscriptions. The center of his cult was Mount Soracte, a sacred mountain...
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    Alphabet Cippus Perusinus Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum Liber Linteus Pyrgi Tablets Raetic language Lemnian language Tabula Capuana Tabula Cortonensis...
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    equivalent to the Greco-Roman god Apollo. Their names are associated on Pyrgi inscriptions too. The name Apulu or Aplu did not come directly from Greece...
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    father had married someone more like the castrated boy. He died of edema at Pyrgi (an ancient Etruscan city) in January AD 41. In Domitius' will, Nero inherited...
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    Tolfa Hills to the south of the city and midway to the Caeretan port of Pyrgi. In 509 BC, after the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, the family of Tarquinius...
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    Alphabet Cippus Perusinus Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum Liber Linteus Pyrgi Tablets Raetic language Lemnian language Tabula Capuana Tabula Cortonensis...
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    Alphabet Cippus Perusinus Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum Liber Linteus Pyrgi Tablets Raetic language Lemnian language Tabula Capuana Tabula Cortonensis...
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    Astarte has been brought to light by the discovery of the Pyrgi Tablets in 1964. At Pyrgi, one of the ports of Caere, excavations had since 1956 revealed...
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  • artefact. As of 2024[update], nothing has been published. A sheet from the Pyrgi Tablets, c. 500 BCE), with Etruscan characters Lamella Orphica (Getty Museum)...
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    rather than being of native Syrian origin. The Phoenician text of the Pyrgi Tablets (western central Italy) seem to indicate that the commemoration...
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  • Oinousses Olympoi Pagida Parparia Patrika Pirama Pispilounta Pityous Psara Pyrgi Sidirounta Spartounta Sykiada Tholopotami Thymiana Trypes Vasileonoiko Vaviloi...
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    Lampeti, Syntriada, Tragano) Agios Georgios Agios Ilias (Agios Ilias, Pyrgi, Stamatelaiika) Agios Ioannis (Agios Ioannis, Kyani Akti, Palatas, Tragano)...
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    Alphabet Cippus Perusinus Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum Liber Linteus Pyrgi Tablets Raetic language Lemnian language Tabula Capuana Tabula Cortonensis...
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    three sea ports including Pyrgi, connected to Caere by a road about 13 km (8.1 mi) long and 10 m (33 ft) wide, and Punicum. Pyrgi was also known for its...
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    from 396 BC: Invasion of the Celts into the Po Valley 384 BC: Plunder of Pyrgi (Santa Severa) by Dionysius I of Syracuse 358 BC: Alliance of Tarquinia...
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    Alphabet Cippus Perusinus Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum Liber Linteus Pyrgi Tablets Raetic language Lemnian language Tabula Capuana Tabula Cortonensis...
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    4 metres, on a 12 kilometre stretch connecting Cerveteri with its port Pyrgi, made in the 5th century. This had a gravel surface, between tufo edging-blocks...
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