- chapter 32: Worshiping with the dead –
Figure 32.16 Barbarano Romano, Museo Archeologico: monumental cippus in obelisk
form from San Giuliano.period especially the burial gifts of the aristocratic tombs = “tombe principesche” were
particularly rich including partly imported objects from the Near East and the Greek
world (for illustrations, see Chapters 6 and 33).
RECENT DISCOVERIES, EXCAVATIONS
AND RESTORATIONSAmong the most important discoveries of the last three decades we should emphasize the
Tomb of the Demons in Loc. Ripe Sant’Angelo of Cerveteri, the new excavations around
the Tomb of the Five Chairs at Cerveteri and the Tumulo del Sodo II at Cortona-Camucia,
the Doganaccia Tumuli at Tarquinia (see Fig. 32.2), the Cutu Tomb at Perugia, the
painted tombs at Tarquinia (Tomb of the Blue Demons), Sarteano (Tomb of the Infernal
Quadriga) and Veii (Tomb of the Roaring Lions) and the restoration of the Cuccumella
Tumulus at Vulci. It is impossible to mention here many other more or less important
discoveries (see, for instance, Chapters 55 and 56).
VARIADuring the last decades paleoanthropological, paleozoological and paleobotanical fi nds
and researches also became more important telling us a lot about daily life and burial
customs in Etruria.