Riparbella
RIPARBELLA Etruria, Italy.
Evidence in the area around the Cecina river of a Roman-Etruscan settlement (related to the kilns and salt beds of the Cecina?). Etruscan and Roman tombs, carved into the tufa at Gerbia and Melatina testify to such a settlement and Roman tombs at Belora where large finds were made in the 19th c. The archaeological finds are in the civic museums of Livorno and of Cecina.
BIBLIOGRAPHYP. Mantovani, Museo di Livorno (1892); G. Monaco in FA, vols. 18-19, and in StEtr (Rassegna Scavi e scoperte) from 33 (1965) to 38 (1970); M. Failli in Voce della Riviera Etrusca, III, n. 17-18, pp. 2f.
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