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Week Two: Oct. 1

01 October. Cordelia reporting: Happy 21st birthday, Brian! Today we journeyed to San Giuliano, where we explored a not very well known series of Etruscan tombs. We wandered into chambers dug directly into the tufa cliffs, hiked up and down a ravine, toured a small Roman bath complex, and gazed at the place where Professor Ulrich once tried to camp and was foiled by a group of wild boars and another group of irate Italian police officers. We also walked up an ancient staircase carved into a cliff, admired the simple yet elegant carvings of a deer and a dog in the stone above the stairs, and used a not-so-ancient but quite dilapidated wooden staircase to get back to the bus. We returned to Tarquinia, where some people went back to the museum or the necropolis to finish doing research for their papers. In the late afternoon, a small group went to the beach for a final swim/frisbee toss, and at about 7:00 we all met for a reception on the terrace to celebrate Brian’s birthday and to bid farewell to our friendly and faithful bus driver, Renato. Against the backdrop of a sunset over the Tyrrhenian Sea, we drank champagne and chianti and toasted Brian, Renato, and the trip in general. It was a pleasant last evening for our first road trip: tomorrow we leave Tuscany for Rome.

01 October. A new day, a new necropolis: San Giuliano

01 October. Myung-Hee, Cordelia, Karen

01 October. Matt and Brian brave the cobwebs to pose on the funerary beds

01 October. A dromos leading to a multi-chambered tomb

01 October. Adam and Sarah pose as the married couple sarcophagus

01 October. A door carved out of the back wall of a chamber tomb

01 October. The side door of the same tomb

01 October. Walking through the abandoned necropolis

01 October. Brian emerges from the foliage

01 October. The necropolis across the ravine

01 October. The church of San Giuliano, from which the site takes its name

01 October. An underground passage to a Roman bath

01 October. Professor Ulrich lectures on the bath

01 October. Ariel contemplates the complexities of the bath house

01 October. Adam, lost in revelry

01 October. A group shot on the bridge

01 October. An unusual carving into the bedrock

01 October. Flora from San Giuliano

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