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Surroundings:

Tarquinia, Tomba BruschiTarquinia, Doganaccia, The Queen`s TumulusViillanovian Necropolis of Villa Bruschi FalgariAra della Regina

Location:

  • Italy, Tarquinia
  • geo:42.248566,11.771707
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -465~ / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=23386

Annotations

Thomb of the Leopards - Tomba deil Leopardi is an Etruscan burial chamber so called for two antithetic leopards above the banqueting scene. The banqueters are dressed  male-female couples are attended by nude boys on each side of the each couple. According to the Near East, archaic Greek or Epyptian art convention female are depicted as fair-skinned and men as dark. It dates back ca 480-450 BC.

See:

  1. Stephan Steingräber, Abundance of Life. EtruscanWall Painting, 2006
  2. http://www.mysteriousetruscans.com/tombs.html

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Etruscan tomb at the Necropolis of Monterozzi. Tarquinia. 30. Funerary Bed.

Tomba dei Baccanti, Tarquinia

Etruscan tomb at the Necropolis of Monterozzi – Calvario. Tomb of the Bacchantes.

Tomb of the Triclinium, Tarquinia

Tomba del Triclinio is an Etruscan tomb at the Necropolis of Monterozzi


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