Cippo etrusco piriforme reimpiego antico _ Via San. Martino(G. Bettini, Comune di Pisa)The pear is now located near Palazzo Salviati: a provision of the Magistrate of the Ditches and Roads Office of the City of Pisa dated 26 February 1692 established that the Verrucana stone pear (actually in marble)... [was to be removed] from where it was, in the middle of the road, and be placed beside the wall of the said Pious house of Mercy. The pear, a term used in Pisa in the twelfth century, is an Etruscan headstone located on the corner between Via la Pera and via San Martino, in front of the domus of the Del Bagno family. The headstone was located on a column about 70 centimeters high and was already a real monument in the seventeenth century. According to the legend, it represents a trophy of the war virtue of the de Balneo family during the first Crusade. In fact, the pear is the testimony of an Etruscan past of the city, an Acheruntica stone from necropolis of Barbaricina, a suburb to the west of Piazza dei Miracoli.
