Tomba della Pulcella
The Tomba della Pulcella ("Tomb of the Girl") - a painted Etruscan tomb - was discovered in 1865 in the Etruscan Monterozzi necropolis in Tarquinia . It got its name in 1872 when the grave was discovered a second time - knowledge of its location had meanwhile been lost - due to the depiction of a girl in a banquet scene. The picture is today destroyed as modern grave robbers tried to cut it out of the wall. The Tomba della Pulcella dates to the second half of the 5th century BC. It has some peculiarities, most notably a niche in the back wall of the burial chamber, in which an urn was once deposited. The dromos leading down to the grave is also extremely long.
On the back wall of the niche, two winged beings were depicted, which are now very faded. They are either demons or geniuses like Hypnos and Thanatos . On the side walls of the niche hang painted bandages ( tänien ). The niche obviously represents a small sanctuary. It has a gable roof with painted gable decorations. Musicians are standing to the right and left of the niche. The side walls of the burial chamber show banquet scenes . The guests lie on Klinen and hold eggs, lyre and metal vessels. Much of the paintings on the left wall were destroyed by grave robbers in the 1960s. However, a servant's head could be located on the art market and returned to Italy. It is now in the National Archaeological Museum of Tarquinia .
Individual evidence
- ^ Stephan Steingräber : Abundance of Life, Etruscan Wall Painting . Los Angeles 2006, ISBN 978-0-89236-865-5 , p. 158.
literature
- Mario Moretti , Leonard von Matt : Etruscan painting in Tarquinia. Du Mont Schauberg, Cologne 1974, ISBN 3-7701-0541-9 , p. 108.
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Coordinates: 42 ° 15 ′ 3 ″ N , 11 ° 46 ′ 8.9 ″ E