Tomba della Fustigazione
The Tomba della Fustigazione (Tomb of Chastisement) is a small Etruscan underground burial chamber in the Monterozzi necropolis near Tarquinia .
The grave was discovered by Carlo Maurilio Lerici in 1960. It is about a 4 × 4 meter large, painted crypt, to which a flat staircase leads down. The paintings are badly damaged or destroyed in many places. A dancer and a musician can be seen on the back wall. A false door is shown in the middle. On the left wall you can also see a dancer and a drunk young man. Two pugilists are depicted on the entrance wall.
The scene on the right wall gave the grave its name: a woman and two men are shown making love, the woman leaning forward and being beaten by one man with a rod and the other with his hand. In Etruscan tomb painting, in which erotic scenes are relatively common, no comparable representation is known to date. It should be one of the earliest depictions of BDSM acts at all. The grave is dated to the end of the 6th century BC.
The interpretation of the erotic scene is controversial. It may be related to the cult of Dionysus , but it may also have had a protective character.
Together with the Tomba dei Baccanti , Tomba Cardarelli , the Tomba del Teschio , Tomba del Citaredo and the tombs 4255, 4260, 5591 (Tomba Moretti), the tomb was probably painted by a workshop ( Maestro dei Baccanti ) working in Tarquinia , as the paintings show numerous similarities in these graves.
Individual evidence
- ^ Stephan Steingräber : Abundance of Life, Etruscan Wall Painting , Los Angeles 2006, ISBN 978-0-89236-865-5 , p. 100
- ^ Stephan Steingräber : Abundance of Life, Etruscan Wall Painting , Los Angeles 2006, ISBN 978-0-89236-865-5 , p. 99
literature
- Mario Moretti , Leonard von Matt : Etruscan painting in Tarquinia. Du Mont Schauberg, Cologne 1974, ISBN 3-7701-0541-9 , p. 90, figs. 62–63.
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Coordinates: 42 ° 14 ′ 57.5 ″ N , 11 ° 46 ′ 12 ″ E