Statonia

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Statonia was an ancient Etruscan city whose location is unknown and disputed. Directly cite by George Dennis, The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria vol I pag. 467 ss. Chapter XXIV STATONIA:

"... If not on this site (CASTRO), where shall we place the ancient Statonia? it is a question not to be answered definitely. Pliny indeed indicates a site not far from the sea (8: Plin. XIV, 8, 5. He records the renown of its wine.), though not actually on the coast (9: Plin. III 8; cf. Strab. V. p. 226). From his and other notices of it in connection with Tarquinii, it seems highly probable that it stood close to, if not actually within the territory of that city, as Vitruvius appears to intimate (1: Vitruv. II, 7; Plin. XXXVI. 49; Varro, de Re Rust. III. 12. The lastnamed writer says there were immense preserves of hares, stags and wild sheep, in the ager of Statonia. Cluver thinks that Statonia could not have stood in the direct line between Tarquinii and the lake of Volsinii, because the ager Tarquiniensis extended up to that lake. Dempster offers no opinion on his own.). There is every reason to believe that Statonia stood somewhere in this northern district of the Etruscan plain, but to which...