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Location

  • Italy, Tarquinia
  • geo:42.246689,11.779908

Period or year

  • -400~ / -350~

Classification

  • graves
  • Visible

Tarquinia, Tomb of Orcus - Tomba dell'Orco

data access 43500

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

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2017-07-20) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Tarquinia, Tomb of Orcus - Tomba dell'Orco. https://vici.org/vici/43500, accessed 2026-11-12.