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Surroundings:

Vulci - GateVucli - Hercules' sanctuaryVulci - MithraeumVilla dell criptoporticoplan of the villaEdificio absidatoVulci - Temple (reconstruction)Vulci - TempleVulci - Temple (back)Vulci: Edificio in LaterizioPonte dell'Abbadia, VulciVulci - GateVulci - AqueducMontalto di Castro

Location:

  • Italy, Montalto di Castro
  • geo:42.421333,11.641377
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • -9xx / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=41054

Annotations

The Etruscan Tomb of the Sardinian Bronze Figurines at the Cavalupo Necropolis near Vulci dating from the ninth century BC was dicovered in 1958. It was the grave of a women 25-35 yuears old and a girl 8-10 years old. Their ashes placed in a single funerary urn. Burial was furnished with reach goods made of bronze and gold. Among jewerly were there bronze statue of a nuragic warrior - priest.

See:

  1. Enrico Pellegrini et all., Vulci: La tomba dei bronzetti sardi; Arancio Moretti Pellegrini; PPE Atti IX, 2008, pp.  169- 214 [italian, short summary] - https://www.academia.edu/4089925

Nearby

Vulci, Necropolis Cavalupo

Necropoli di Cavalupo

François Tomb at Vulci

Etruscan painted tomb.


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