Pyrgi
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: N. Purcell
Creators: N. Purcell
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, Ryan Horne
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Oct 08, 2025 01:46 PM
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History
Pyrgi is an ancient Etruscan port city on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy. A Roman colony was established at the site by 191 B.C. In 1964, the bilingual 'Pyrgi Plaques' were discovered during the course of excavations.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/433061
42.0155261018, 11.9626995307
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: Pyrgi archaeological site (750 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- DARMC location 7118 (750 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Santa Severa (Italian, modern)
- Pyrgi next place in route Alsium (unspecified date range)
- Pyrgi connection Tyrrhenum/Inferum Mare (unspecified date range)
- Pyrgi connection Via Aurelia (unspecified date range)
- Roman castrum at Pyrgi located at Pyrgi (unspecified date range)
- Santuario di Pyrgi located at Pyrgi (unspecified date range)
sanctuary (religious center), temple, archaeological site, settlement, port
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 44 A1 Pyrgi
- Castagnoli and Cozza 1957, 16-21
- GAL Etruria
- ItAnt (Cuntz) 290,3
- ItMiller 247
- Le lamine di Pyrgi
- New Pauly Pyrgi [1] (Giovannangelo Camporeale, Yves Lafond, and Eckart Olshausen)
- Pallottino 1975
- Pallottino 1979
- RE Pyrgoi [2] Pyrgi
- Schmitz 1995
- Smith 1854 (Perseus) PYRGI
- ToposText Pyrgi (Italy)
- Wikipedia (English) Pyrgi
- See Also:
- Related:
![RE Pyrgoi [2] Pyrgi](https://elexikon.ch/RE/XXIV_25.png){kind=link}
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 A1 Pyrgi
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: S. Severa
N. Purcell, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, and Ryan Horne, 'Pyrgi: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/433061> [accessed: 09 December 2025]
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