Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Tumulus of Montetosto
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Tumulus of Montetosto is a megalithic mound in Lazio, Cerveteri, Italy. It lies at 42.0036° N, 12.0594° E. It is attributed to the Etruscans culture.
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Tumulus of Montetosto
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Many of Italy's tumuli are the mounded tombs of the Etruscans, the people of Etruria in central Italy. At Cerveteri, ancient Caere, the Banditaccia Necropolis contains the most important tumulus tombs and chambers known. They are cut from the soft volcanic rock, tufa, and most echo Greek architecture in their carved details. Caere was one of the city-states of the Etruscan League; at its height, around 600 BCE, its population was perhaps 25,000 to 40,000, and the size of its graves reflects the wealth of its leading families. The regional background, “Etruscan tumuli of Italy”, is given below.
Dating
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Setting
5 other recorded monuments lie within 10 km (0 within 1 km, 3 within 5 km), 5 of them of the same type. In Lazio, Italy, 1 of the 1 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Regolini-Galassi tomb (3.6 km east, megalithic mound); Tomb of the Shields and Chairs, Caere (3.6 km east, megalithic mound); Tomba Torlonia (4.7 km east, megalithic mound); Martini-Marescotti Tomb (5.3 km east, megalithic mound).
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Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Etruscan tumuli of Italy
Many of Italy's tumuli are the mounded tombs of the Etruscans, the people of Etruria in central Italy. At Cerveteri, ancient Caere, the Banditaccia Necropolis contains the most important tumulus tombs and chambers known. They are cut from the soft volcanic rock, tufa, and most echo Greek architecture in their carved details. Caere was one of the city-states of the Etruscan League; at its height, around 600 BCE, its population was perhaps 25,000 to 40,000, and the size of its graves reflects the wealth of its leading families.
The Regolini-Galassi tomb at Cerveteri, dated to about 680 to 650 BCE, is one of the wealthiest Etruscan family tombs. It has two burial chambers on either side of a corridor 37 metres long; the lower part is cut into tufa and the upper part is built of square stone blocks, each course overhanging the one below to make a rough vault. At Populonia, on the coast, monumental tumuli with a cylindrical base (crepidines) and a false dome were built from the second half of the ninth century BCE; their wealth is thought to reflect the exploitation of inland mineral resources, and by the late seventh century their size became more uniform, which has been read as a reorganisation of the community. At Tarquinia the Monterozzi necropolis has some 6,000 tombs, at least 200 with painted walls, and many were tumulus tombs with chambers carved in the rock below.
Dating comes from the objects in the tombs and from the architecture itself. Many tombs were looted in antiquity or in later centuries.
When visiting, walk the Banditaccia necropolis, where many of the tombs are visible at close range, and compare the round tumulus with the rock-cut chamber beneath.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Cerveteri, Wikipedia: Regolini-Galassi tomb, Wikipedia: Tarquinia, Wikipedia: Populonia, Wikipedia: Etruscan civilization, Wikipedia: Tumulus · CC BY-SA 4.0
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- Coordinates
- 42°00′13″ N, 12°03′34″ EFor a GPS or map app: 42.00361, 12.05944
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Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Regolini-Galassi tomb680–650 BCE- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Tomb of the Shields and Chairs, Caere
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Tomba Torlonia
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Martini-Marescotti Tomb
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Le Pestarole
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Cima tumulus
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Tumulo della Vaccareccia
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Chigi tumulus, Monte Aguzzo
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