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Arretium

One of the 12 cities of Etruria, especially famous for its red pottery, Arretine ware, copied in Gaul in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. The celebrated bronze chimera (5th century BC) now in the Archaeological Museum, Florence was discovered here.



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I note: Aretinus is more readily available in Chambers (aka Arretinus of Arretium or Arezzo, under Aretinian), and also in the OED quote under Guidonian.
 
 
 
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