TODI (TUTERE)

   A major Umbrian settlement, under Etruscan influence (findspot of Etruscan inscriptions and imports) that lay on the boundary (as suggested by its Umbrian name Tutere) with Etruria, between the Etruscan cities of Perugia to the north and Orvieto to the west. A large (1.4 meters high) bronze statue of a warrior of probable Orvieto manufacture using the lost wax process was found 350 meters from Todi, deliberately buried some 300 years after its manufacture in approximately 400 BC. The statue bears an Umbrian inscription in South Etruscan writing, showing the hybridity of its culture.