Sarcophagus of Bella Galiana

A marble copy of the sarcophagus replaced the Ancient Roman original, which had been displayed outside on the facade of the church of Sant'Agnelo in Spatha standing across from the Palazzo dei Priori, Viterbo.

According to Annius of Viterbo the sarcophagus had originally belonged to Valerius Agricola, 6th praetor of Etruria during imperial Roman era.

One part of the tale is that in the distant pagan past, every year, citizens of Viterbo would sacrifice a young maiden to a savage boar who lived in the surrounding forest.

Chained to a rock in the forest, when the boar approached to attack her, he in turn was slain by a fortuitous lion, who did not harm the maiden.

Her father putatively killed his daughter and tossed her body over the walls ( or off a balcony) telling the nobleman that he could have her dead, but never alive.