Top: Tumuliin-Banditaccia necropolis
Cerveteri, Italy 7th-2nd centuries BCE
similar to Mycenaean tombs
tufa-dark local limestone
tumulus-great earthen mounds
extramural (outside walls)-houses of the
dead
necropolis=cemetery
Bottom: interior Tomb of the Shields & Chairs 550-500BCE
?terracotta statues of dead "sat" in chairs?
craved from bedrock
Both: rock-cut underground tombs
mirrored houses of living
several generations buried
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