Recent Research in the Etruscan Necropolis of Sasso Pinzuto at Tuscania

Abstract The Sasso Pinzuto necropolis is one of the main Etruscan cemeteries of Tuscania, containing more than one hundred chamber tombs and was used mostly from the early seventh to the fifth century BCE. Like other cemeteries around Tuscania, it also yielded remains of terracotta decoration belonging to the roof of a building, dated to the early sixth century BCE. The terracotta decoration includes friezes showing banqueting people and other scenes closely connected to the Etruscan elites. At Sasso Pinzuto near the tumuli containing chamber tombs the foundation of an oikos has been recently identified: the terracotta decorations belonging to this building can shed new light on the oikoi in the necropoleis.