The site of Monte Vetrano, at the confluence of Fuorni and the Picentino River valleys, near the main Etruscan settlement of Pontecagnano (Salerno), is one of the most important recent discoveries in the archaeological history of the pre-Roman Campania. The burial evidence attests the development of the settlement in the second half of the 8th century BC,when it functioned as an aggregator of people and products of the inland. Its prosperity derived fom the inclusion into the system of the Tyrrhenian trade which grew with the arrivals of the Greeks on the Campania coast and the foundation of Pithekoussai and Cumae. The paper focuses on Tomb 111 of Monte Vetrano, a female cremation dating to the third quarter of the 8th century BC. The bones, together with bronze fbulae and ornaments, an impasto spindle whorl and a burnt fragment of a chevron skyphos, are laid in a bronze cauldron according to the burial customs of the graves found in the heroon by the west gate of Eretria.

Monte Vetrano (Salerno) tra Oriente e Occidente. A proposito delle tombe 74 e 111

CERCHIAI, Luca;PELLEGRINO, CARMINE;
2016-01-01

Abstract

The site of Monte Vetrano, at the confluence of Fuorni and the Picentino River valleys, near the main Etruscan settlement of Pontecagnano (Salerno), is one of the most important recent discoveries in the archaeological history of the pre-Roman Campania. The burial evidence attests the development of the settlement in the second half of the 8th century BC,when it functioned as an aggregator of people and products of the inland. Its prosperity derived fom the inclusion into the system of the Tyrrhenian trade which grew with the arrivals of the Greeks on the Campania coast and the foundation of Pithekoussai and Cumae. The paper focuses on Tomb 111 of Monte Vetrano, a female cremation dating to the third quarter of the 8th century BC. The bones, together with bronze fbulae and ornaments, an impasto spindle whorl and a burnt fragment of a chevron skyphos, are laid in a bronze cauldron according to the burial customs of the graves found in the heroon by the west gate of Eretria.
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