Necropolis of Veio, The Tomb of the Ducks - Rome

1 Aprile 2014

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    Necropolis of Veio, The Tomb of the Ducks - Rome




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    The ancient Etruscan town of Veio, stood on a vast plateau delimited by the ditches of Valchietta and Mola. The town was surrounded by powerful walls on all sides, of which some parts are still visible today.

    There is not much of the rest of the urban buildings, except a few rural houses and the remains of the colony of Caesar.


    The most important and best preserved Etruscan findings are the cemeteries, which stretched in shape of a circle on the hills around the village: thousands of burials date back to the Villanovan age (ninth and eighth centuries BC) in the areas of Quattro Fontanili, Grotta Gramiccia, Casale del Fosso and Valle La Fata.

    A more widespread territorial extension of these tombs happened in the seventh and sixth centuries BC in the areas of Monte Michele, Monte Campanile, Macchia della Comunità, Picazzano and Riserva del Bagno.


    Inside the Tomb of the Ducks - first half of the sixth century BC (see photo) - and the recently discovered Tomb of the Roaring Lions, there are the oldest preserved funerary paintings of Etruria with friezes of animals painted with the technique called "contour line", the first painting technique mentioned by Pliny.

    The tomb, located at Riserva del Bagno, is so called because of the represented animalistic subject: ducks.
    The five birds are painted in a row, on the walls above a coloured base.

    The tomb has a unique room and the fourfold ceiling is frescoed too.


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    Source: www.futouring.it/web/filas/dettaglio?newsEventoId=72950
     
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