| Abstrakt: |
The recent discoveries in the Doganaccia Necropolis of the Tumulus of the Queen and the “Tomb of the Suspended Aryballos" allow us to develop our reflections on the early funerary art of Tarquinia, a period that has been largely neglected by study due to the apparent scarcity and simplicity of evidence, but which has now been enlightened by new data and a careful re-examination of old finds. Tarquinia, when compared with Veii and Cerveteri, was slow to embrace the great funerary painting of the Etruscans, beginning to do so around the same time as Cerveteri, however with less complexity from a figurative point of view. In light of the remains of paintings which are preserved on plaster, of the Oriental style, in the vestibule/entrance of the Tumulus of the Queen, it is necessary to reconsider the idea that early local painting arrived later between the Orientalising and High Archaic periods, in other words up until the beginning of the Late Archaic, Greco-Ionic influenced flourishing of painting (the second half of the 6th century BC). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
