SPINA

SPINA
   A port city on the Adriatic founded in the late sixth century BC. The six-hectare settlement probably consisted of wooden structures set between embankments and canals on a regular plan. The cemeteries (mainly fossa tombs) were set on sand dunes to the north and east of the city. These contained much Attic pottery, Etruscan bronzework, and ivory and gold jewelry. The city is recorded to have founded a treasury at Delphi, giving some indication of its importance as a trading settlement. Its Etruscan identity is given credence by the presence of Etruscan inscriptions in both the settlement and cemetery, including tular or boundary inscriptions that may suggest that Spina was on the Etruscan frontier.

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  • Spina — was an Etruscan port city on the Adriatic at the ancient mouth of the Po, south of the lagoon which would become the site of Venice. The site of Spina was lost until modern times, when drainage schemes in the delta of the Po River in 1922 first… …   Wikipedia

  • spina — ⇒SPINA, subst. fém. ANTIQ. ROMAINE. Mur, exhaussement situé au milieu du cirque dans le sens de la longueur et qui était contourné par les chars. La spina était décorée de statues, de colonnes, d ornements de divers genres (Nouv. Lar. ill.). Des… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • spina — s.f. [dal lat. spina ]. 1. (bot.) a. [ogni emergenza o sporgenza di fusti o di fillomi quali la rosa, il rovo, ecc.: pungersi con una s. ] ▶◀ aculeo, spino. b. [spec. al plur., pianta spinosa: un cespuglio di spine ] ▶◀ rovo, sterpo. ⇓ (lett.)… …   Enciclopedia Italiana

  • spina — spȋna ž DEFINICIJA anat. jedan od oblika apofize; koštani izdanak; potječe od potezanja mišića SINTAGMA spina bifida pat. rascjep kralješnice u lumbosakralnom predjelu; prirođena anomalija ETIMOLOGIJA lat. spina: trn, kralješnica …   Hrvatski jezični portal

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  • špina — špȋna ž DEFINICIJA reg. slavina, pipa FRAZEOLOGIJA otvoriti/zatvoriti špinu pren. dati/ne dati novac (o investicijama, financiranjima, subvencioniranjima itd.) ETIMOLOGIJA mlet. spina ← tal …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • Spina [2] — Spina, 1) Stadt der Lingones in Gallia cisalpina, angeblich von Diomedes gegründet, früher an der einen Padusmündung, welche daher den Namen Spinetĭcum ostĭum (s. Padus b) erhielt. S. durch Handel reich, sank aber, da der Hafen durch die großen… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Spina [3] — Spina, 1) Alexander della S., geb. in Pisa, Predigermönch, soll Erfinder der Brillen sein; st. 1313. 2) Alfons de S., geb. von jüdischen Eltern in Spanien u. lebte im 15. Jahrh.; er trat zum Christenthum über u. bei den Franciscanern ein u. st.… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Spinä — Spinä, Ortschaft der Dobunni od. Atrebates im Römischen Britannien; j. Speen mit altem Castell u. andern Alterthümern …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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