Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell'Etruria Meridionale
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Museum and Necropolis of Tarquinia and Cerveteri
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Type
Cultural
Criteria
i, iii, iv
Reference no.
1158
Region
Europe and North America
The Tomb of the Augurs (Italian Tomba degli Àuguri) is an Etruscan burial chamber so called because of a misinterpretation of one of the fresco figures on the right wall thought to be a Roman priest known as an augur. The tomb is located within the Necropolis of Monterozzi near Tarquinia, Lazio, Italy, and dates to around 530-520 BC. This tomb is one of the first tombs in Tarquinia to have figural decoration on all four walls of its main or only chamber.[1]: xxxiv The wall decoration was frescoed between 530-520 BC by an Ionian Greek painter, perhaps from Phocaea, whose style was associated with that of the Northern Ionic workers active in Elmali. This tomb is also the first time a theme not of mythology, but instead depictions of funerary rites and funerary games are seen.[2]: 37
^A History of Roman Art, Enhanced Edition, Wadsworth CENGAGE Learning, Boston, 2010
^The Great Centuries of Painting: Etruscan Painting, Second Edition, The World Publishing Company, Cleveland, 1952
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