TARQUINII (mod. Corneto Tarquinia, q.v.)  , an ancient city of Etruria, Italy, situated on a hill overlooking the S.W. coast of Italy, about 5 M . N.W. of it . The site of the Roman town is now deserted, its last remains having been destroyed by the inhabitants of Corneto in 13o7 . Scanty remains of walling and of buildings of the Roman period exist above ground; traces of a large rectangular platform were found in 1876, and part of the thermae in 1829; it occupied the summit of a hill defended by ravines, called Piano di Civita . It seems probable, See L . Dasti, Notizie Storiche archeologiche di Tarquinia e Corneto (Rome, 1878) ; G . Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (London, 1883), i . 301 sqq.; Notizie degli Scavi, passim, especially 1885, 513 sqq.; E . Bormann in Corp . Incr . Lat., xi . (Berlin, 1888), p .

510 sqq.; G . Korte, s.v . " Etrusker " in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyklopadie, vi . 73o sqq . (T .