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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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  • 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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Monuments

Periods

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Season

    • These excavations were undertaken due to the robbing of Etruscan burials in the area, the results of which were seen during the first inspection of the zone.

      Work concentrated on a chamber tomb (n. 1), cut into the natural tufa rock preceded by a deep _

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    • Three rock-cut tombs were excavated, two of the chamber type (nos. 2, 4) and one that was probably a single loculus (n. 3) aligned with tomb 1, which was also restored during this campaign.

      Tomb 2 was a small sub-circular chamber, almost completely occu

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    • 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 collap

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    • Work was undertaken in three separate areas of the site. The investigation of the area uphill from tomb 5 was completed with the excavation of a chamber tomb with dromos and bench (no. 9) and two graves (nos. 10, 11), all cut into the tufa and almost c... Read More
    • This season’s excavations examined a large rock-cut chamber tomb (no. 20), situated in the Pratino II area, a short distance to the north-west of the first nucleus of the necropolis that was investigated (Pratino I).

      The chamber’s vault had collapsed in

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    • The excavations concentrated on two areas of the Pratino II necropolis. The dromos of tomb 20, the nearby tomb 21 and two tombs (nos. 22, 23) south-west of the latter. All were rock-cut chamber tombs with dromos. At the end of the season, roofs were pu... Read More
    • Excavations took place in three zones of the areas Pratino I and II, where four funerary structures were investigated (nos. 37, 41, 42, 43). These rock-cut chamber tombs with dromos had benches divided into loculi, separated by a passage.

      The upper

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  • 900 BC
  • 323 BC
  • 31 BC