71) or that, as a recent French writer has conjectured, the Etruscans brought any such art with them from the East and communicated it to the West.
We must conclude that at Marzabotto we have a piece of evidence which we cannot set into its proper historical framework.

We might perhaps call it an early blend of Greek and Italian methods and compare it with Naples (p.

100).

It is odd that four out of seven house-blocks should measure just under 120 Roman ft.

in width and thus approximate to a figure which we meet often elsewhere in the Roman world (p.