Monte Tosto
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 31, 2025 01:22 PM
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History
An Etruscan and Roman site lying 4 km to the west of Caere along the monumental road leading to Pyrgi. Until the early 1960s, the site was known for the monumental tumulus that Mengarelli had excavated in the 1920s. Subsequent excavation revealed other evidence, including an elite compound that served as a sanctuary.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/422977
42.0033047331, 12.0593008354
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Santuario di Montetosto (330 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of Montetosto tumulus (750 BC - 330 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of Tumulo di Montetosto (750 BC - 330 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Monte Tosto (Italian, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Tumulo di Montetosto (Italian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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sanctuary (religious center), tumulus
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 43 A1 Monte Tosto
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Monte Tosto
L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Monte Tosto: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/422977> [accessed: 15 May 2026]
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