But we shall see below that the existence of a relation between the two is highly probable.
_Marzabotto_ (fig.

12).
[Illlustration: FIG.12.

MARZABOTTO.
(AB, FG, CD, main streets.

The shading represents excavated houses.)] (ii) A greater puzzle, dating probably from the fifth century B.C., meets us in the ruins of a nameless little Etruscan town which stood outside of Etruria proper, on the north slopes of the Apennines.

Its site is fifteen miles south of Bologna, close to the modern Marzabotto, on the left bank of the little river Reno.