Populonia
Populonie (in Italian Populonia ) is a hamlet today commune of Piombino.
Populonie was the only city of the Etruscan dodécapole located on the sea. It was also the greatest center on the Mediterranean specialized in the cast iron of the Fer of the ore extracted on the island close to Elba. It is there that arrived the metal masses which could thus be sold or worked in the large workshops carried out for this purpose. Ceramics on the other hand was imported other Etruscan cities.
Populonie is located on the top of a peninsula. A deprived museum preserves at it Etruscan and Roman parts found at the sea-bed.
The statue known under the name of Apollo of Piombino, found in water of the Gulf of Baratti, is today with the Louvre in Paris.
Strabon and other geographers described it to us or quoted as a city which is still upright today at the same place and with the same name; Populonia whose Virgile says to us that it provides to Enée six hundred young warriors, which, while making the share of the poetic fictions, testifies at least to his splendor passed, Populonia appears to have been the center of all work mineralurgic of these regions during the Etruscan domination. It was destroyed at the time of the Roman conquest, others say under the dictatorship of Sylla; and devastated since by the Barbarians, it was raised more.
But under the Etruscan domination, Populonia was a very populated, powerful city by industry and the trade. The perimeter of its walls pelasgic covers a considerable extent, and the remainders of objets d'art which one found under his ruins attest a very developed civilization. Populonia enjoyed with Volterra the right of coinage for all the Etruscan confederation. Its currencies all are almost with the effigy of Vulcan, which personifies the work of metals in ancient paganism, and, for better still explaining than the head of the god blacksmith means: in this case, the currencies of Populonia carry for weapons the hammer, the anvil and the clippers. Finally the word itself of Populonia, in Pupluna Etruscan, has, according to the antique dealers, the same significance as the word mines in French: Pupluna was thus, under the Etruscans, the city of the mines and metals.
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