LA TOMBA 8 (LXI) DI CONTRADA MORGI A NARCE, CURIOSAMENTE REGISTRATA AL PATRIMONIO DELLO STATO PRIMA DEL SUO RINVENIMENTO

Abstract

The discovery in the depots of the Museo Archeologico dell’Agro falisco in Civita Castellana of a
group of findings pertaining, on the basis of the available documentation, to the grave goods from
tomb 8(LXI) of the so-called south-south-eastern burial ground of Contrada Morgi, most of which
are now on display at the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome, has made it possible
to reconstruct the entire context as it was found at the end of the 19th century during the excavations
of the necropoleis of the faliscan centre of Narce.
In the light of this new acquisition, the paper aims to reconstruct, through the examination of the grave goods and all the available data, the depositions that the chamber tomb must have received,
as well as their chronological framing and the review of the cultural relations within which the
owners of the tomb, one of the most important in the Orientalising period in Narce, were inserted.
Keywords: Narce; faliscan centre; chamber tomb; orientalising period.