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Excavation

  • Macchia della Riserva
  • Pian delle Rusciare
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  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Province of Viterbo
  • Tuscania

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Credits

  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • Investigations continued at the necropolis of Pian delle Rusciare with the excavation of the rock cut funerary structures (nos. 5, 6, 7, 8).

    Tomb 5 was a chamber with dromos and lateral cuniculus. It was visible from above the ground due to its collapsed vault, which led to its being disturbed by grave robbers. The chamber had a quadrangular plan, with a short passage continuing the dromos. The entrance to a cuniculus opened in the left wall. Three nenfro stone sarcophagi were placed on the right side, at the back and in the centre of the chamber. The lids, (one simple ridge type and two with columen in relief) had been smashed by the grave robbers but were recovered from the fill and placed elsewhere. Three small plain ware plates, the fragments of a black gloss bowl and a bronze handle were found between the sarcophagi. Still in place at the end of the dromos, was the lower part of the door, whose upper parts were recovered in secondary deposition inside the chamber fill.

    Tombs 7 and 8 were graves situated uphill from tomb 5, and only the tile covering and a few plain ware elements from the tomb group were recovered from them.

    Tomb 6, situated a short distance to the south-west of tomb 3, was difficult to interpret. It consisted of a sort of niche created at the base of a vertical cut in the tufa bedrock, without dromos. It could perhaps be interpreted as an unfinished tomb.

  • Stefano Giuntoli - LdM (Istituto d'Arte e Cultura "Lorenzo de' Medici") 

Director

Team

  • Domenica Palmieri - CAMNES

Research Body

  • Istituto d’Arte e Cultura “Lorenzo de’Medici” Firenze
  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell'Etruria meridionale

Funding Body

  • Comune di Tuscania

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