Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
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The Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia are two cities of the dead north of Rome: the Banditaccia at Cerveteri and the Monterozzi at Tarquinia. Their tombs were made from the 9th to the 1st century BC, and they are among the most important sources on Etruscan civilisation.
Cerveteri was the Etruscan city the Romans called Caere, and at its height around 600 BC it may have had 25,000 to 40,000 inhabitants. At the Banditaccia, thousands of tombs are laid out like a town with streets and squares, and chambers cut into the tufa copy houses with a corridor, a central hall and several rooms. The Tomb of the Reliefs, belonging to the Matuna family and discovered in 1847, has its walls covered in stucco reliefs of household goods, weapons and pets.
The Monterozzi at Tarquinia has about 6,000 rock-cut graves, and some 200 of the chambers are painted. The earliest painted tomb dates from the 7th century BC. The frescoes show rituals, animals, dancing and musical instruments, and the best known include the Tomb of the Leopards and the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing. Many finds and some of the paintings were moved to the nearby Tarquinia National Museum to protect them. The two necropolises were inscribed in 2004.
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