The Etruscan World (Routledge Worlds)

Simonetta Stopponi – suckled by the wolf (Fig. 31.38). The building may have originally housed the marble portrait that had be ...

chapter 31: Orvieto, Campo della Fiera – To Late Antiquity is also assigned the mosaic of the brick building erected atop Roma ...

Simonetta Stopponi – Giontella, C. (2009) “Pavimenti in “signino” (cementizio) a Campo della Fiera, Orvieto,” Atti del XIV Con ...

CHAPTER THIRTY TWO WORSHIPING WITH THE DEAD: NEW APPROACHES TO THE ETRUSCAN NECROPOLIS Stephan Steingräber INTRODUCTION^1 I n sp ...

Stephan Steingräber – these works can be considered as a general “handbook” including all areas and sites of Etruria and all-i ...

chapter 32: Worshiping with the dead – not only in Cerveteri and its territory (Blera, San Giuliano, San Giovenale) but in Vul ...

Stephan Steingräber – but reveal probable architectural connections with the Sardinian nuraghe (Fig. 32.3). An early predecess ...

chapter 32: Worshiping with the dead – Figure 32.4 Populonia, San Cerbone Necropolis, Tomb of the Funeral Beds: chamber with r ...

Stephan Steingräber – tomb area (Blera, San Giuliano) and in Orvieto (Figs 32.8, 32.9, 32.10). In Populonia the tumuli were re ...

chapter 32: Worshiping with the dead – Figure 32.8 San Giuliano, Caiolo Necropolis: Tomb of the Stag – cube rock tomb of Helle ...

Stephan Steingräber – the deceased (Tombs of Reliefs and Alcova and Torlonia in Cerveteri, Mercareccia Tomb in Tarquinia). The ...

chapter 32: Worshiping with the dead – Figure 32.12 Sovana, model of the Ildebranda Tomb – temple rock tomb of Hellenistic per ...

Stephan Steingräber – Figure 32.13 Manziana, stepped Etruscan rock altar. Figure 32.14 Bomarzo, rock cube monument of Roman pe ...

chapter 32: Worshiping with the dead – and weapons, as well as perishable items such as food were left for the dead. Real hous ...

Stephan Steingräber – together with the tomb-founder couple buried in the back chamber. Many tumuli have ramps (especially in ...

chapter 32: Worshiping with the dead – Figure 32.16 Barbarano Romano, Museo Archeologico: monumental cippus in obelisk form fr ...

Stephan Steingräber – CONCLUSION Some of the main Etruscan necropoleis such as the Banditaccia necropolis of Cerveteri are not ...

chapter 32: Worshiping with the dead – Coen, A. (1991) Complessi tombali di Cerveteri con urne cinerarie tardo-orientalizzanti ...

Stephan Steingräber – ——(1995) “Alle origini della pittura etrusca: decorazione parietale e architettura funeraria” in Etruria ...

chapter 32: Worshiping with the dead – Romualdi, A. (ed.) (1992) Populonia in età ellenistica. I materiali dalle necropoli. At ...