Tomba degli Aninas
The Tomba degli Aninas (also Tomba degli Anina ; "Tomb of the Aninas"; it bears the number 5051) is a painted Etruscan tomb. The grave was found in 1963 in the Fondo Scataglini necropolis - a district in the larger Monterozzi necropolis - near Tarquinia in the Italian province of Viterbo and was robbed. It probably dates to the 3rd or 2nd century BC. Chr.
The tomb consists of a single, underground, fairly large room. There are benches on three levels around the walls. On these benches are sarcophagi, some with figurative lids, showing the dead lying on a kline . Other sarcophagi are carved into the stone of the pews. The walls of the chamber are painted and show individual figures. It is assumed that these were not all attached when the grave was erected, but rather when a new burial was carried out. The colors on some sarcophagi match those of individual figures on the walls. The figures are also quite inconsistent stylistically. Inscriptions on the walls testify that Larth Anina's grave was built and then used for at least three generations. The two oldest figures can be found to the left and right of the entrance. Here the underworld goddess Vanth and opposite Charun are shown.
The former access to the grave has already been greatly changed in antiquity. There may have been stairs here, as in most tombs of that time. Later, however, a large courtyard was built into the rock.
literature
- Mario Moretti , Leonard von Matt : Etruscan painting in Tarquinia. Du Mont Schauberg, Cologne 1974, ISBN 3-7701-0541-9 , p. 136, figs. 96 and 97.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ See Stephan Steingräber: Abundance of Life, Etruscan Wall Painting . Los Angeles 2006, ISBN 978-0-89236-865-5 , pp. 256-257.
Coordinates: 42 ° 14 ′ 51.7 ″ N , 11 ° 46 ′ 8.6 ″ E