\paperw3195 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \fs22 THE LUCUMONES \par
The equivalent of the king in a monarchy, the lucumo had been the ruler of an Etruscan city since
very ancient times and exerted absolute military, judicial, and religious authority. His investiture was divine. According to the Latin authors the marks of his sovereignty were the gold crown, the scepter, the toga, the throne, and the lictor's fasces,
which consisted of wooden rods tied in a bundle around a two-edged axe. The names of many of the lucumones of ancient Etruria are known to us from the epigraphic sources. Between the end of the sixth and the fifth century BC the lucumones were replaced b
