I nuovi scavi nella necropoli di Monte Abatone - Cerveteri
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Date Issued
2021
Type
article
Volume
XVIII
Issue
1
Start Page
113
End Page
121
Abstract
In the years 2018 and 2019 excavation campaigns were undertaken at the Monte Abatone necropolis, south of the
plateau of the ancient city of Caere. The work was carried out as part of a joint project by the Universities of Campania
‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Tuscia and Bonn with the Superintendency for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the metropolitan
area of Rome, the province of Viterbo and Southern Etruria. The investigations took place in the western sector
of the necropolis, near the Tumulo Campana, where both the new archaeological prospecting carried out by CNR and
the IGM frames and satellite images showed the presence of tombs unidentified during the investigations performed
on the plateau by the Lerici Foundation between 1956 and 1961. During the new excavations, two tombs discovered
by the Lerici excavation were again brought to light, and five new ones were identified. More importantly, however, for
the first time the area outside the tombs was investigated, uncovering the mounds and dromoi of the chamber tombs, as
well as shaft tombs and quarry areas. For the first time too, for a restricted area, it is possible to reconstruct the ancient
funerary landscape of the necropolis, with examples of all the tomb typologies in use at Caere between the end of the
8th and first half of the 6th centuries B.C.E.
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