Tomba Pallottino

Interior view of the Tomba Pallottino

Right wall in the Tomba Pallottino

The Tomba Pallottino ("Pallottino grave", initially designated with the number 3713) was discovered in 1962 in the Etruscan Monterozzi necropolis in Tarquinia and is named after the Etruscanologist Massimo Pallottino (1909-1995). The grave consists of a small painted chamber and dates to the end of the fifth century BC. Chr.

The paintings show male and female dancers between trees with thin branches on all walls. Stephan Steingräber notes that stylistically the paintings belong to the end of the Archaic period and the beginning of the Greek Classical period . While the faces in profile still show archaic features, the drawing of the rich, colorful robes is already in the tradition of the classical period.

Individual evidence

↑ See Stephan Steingräber: Abundance of Life, Etruscan Wall Painting . Los Angeles 2006, ISBN 978-0-89236-865-5 , pp. 71 and 92.

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42.250657 11.768851Coordinates: 42 ° 15 '2.4 " N , 11 ° 46' 7.9" E

[1] See Stephan Steingräber: Abundance of Life, Etruscan Wall Painting . Los Angeles 2006, ISBN 978-0-89236-865-5 , pp. 71 and 92.