tarchnas

Updated: June 25, 2025

The name of the "Tuscan quarter" at the foot of the Palatine points further to Etruscan settlements in Rome. The Tarquins It can hardly, moreover, be doubted that the last regal family which ruled over Rome, that of the Tarquins, was of Etruscan origin, whether it belonged to Tarquinii, as the legend asserts, or to Caere, where the family tomb of the Tarchnas has recently been discovered.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book I : The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy

The name of the "Tuscan quarter" at the foot of the Palatine points further to Etruscan settlements in Rome. The Tarquins It can hardly, moreover, be doubted that the last regal family which ruled over Rome, that of the Tarquins, was of Etruscan origin, whether it belonged to Tarquinii, as the legend asserts, or to Caere, where the family tomb of the Tarchnas has recently been discovered.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)