LA NECROPOLI DI TURONA (BOLSENA, VT). ANALISI DEI CORREDI INEDITI DI TRE TOMBE E PROPOSTA DI CONTESTUALIZZAZIONE ALLA LUCE DI VECCHI E NUOVI DATI

Abstract

This paper aims to present the data resulting from an analysis of the grave goods from three pit tombs discovered
in the Turona necropolis by Raymond Bloch in 1952. The necropolis is located in a highly significant
topographical context within the panorama of internal southern Etruria of the Recent Orientalizing
and Archaic periods.
Located North/North-East along the eastern coast of Lake Bolsena, the Turona necropolis is part of a system
of four burial grounds that belonged to the Civita d’Arlena (Bucine, S. Antonio, Scopetone and Turona),
which reached its high point at from the end of the end of the 8th century B.C onwards. The analysis of
the grave goods provided in this paper make it possible to clarify a number of chronological and topographical
aspects relating to them as well as to shed light – albeit only partially – on some peculiar aspects of the
burial customs of this frontier community.