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Surroundings:

Tarquinia, Doganaccia, The Queen`s TumulusTarquinia, Tomba BruschiViillanovian Necropolis of Villa Bruschi FalgariAra della Regina

Location:

  • Italy, Tarquinia
  • geo:42.246689,11.779908
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -400~ / -350~

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=43500

Annotations

Tomba dell'Orco is an Etruscan tomb in the Necropolis of Monterozzi also known asTomb of Murina. The tomb of Orcus consists of two burial chambers: The Tomb of Orcus I also known as the Tomb of Velcha and The Tomb of Orcus II.

See:

  1. Armida Sodo, Domenico Artioli,  Alberto Botti, Giovanna de Palma, Annamaria Giovagnoli, Maurizio Mariottini, Alessandra Paradisi,  Costatino Polidoro,  Maria Antonietta  Ricci: The colours of Etruscan painting: a study on the Tomba dell'Orco in the necropolis of Tarquinia, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, vol. 39, issue 8, pp. 1035-1041
  2. Jean Charles Balty: Thesaurus Cultus Et Rituum Antiquorum (ThesCRA)Getty Publications, 2004, p. 266,
  3. http://www.mysteriousetruscans.com/tarorcus.html
  4. Stephan Steingräber, Abundance of Life: Etruscan Wall Painting, Getty Publications, 2006
  5. http://www.canino.info/inserti/monografie/etruschi/tombe_tarquinia/Orco/index.htm

Nearby

Tomba del Cardinale, Tarquinia

Etruscan tomb at the Necropolis Primi Archi, Tarquinia

Tomba degli Scudi

Etruscan tomb at the Necropolis of Monterozzi.

Monterozzi Necropolis, Tomba del Tifone [Tarquinia]

The Necropolis of Tarquinia. Typhon Tomb.


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