Cerveteri
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Cerveteri is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, in the Italian region of Lazio. Known by the ancient Romans as Caere, and previously by the Etruscans as Caisra or Cisra, and as Agylla
Banditaccia Necropolis
View of the necropolis.
Tomb of the reliefs, 4th century B.C., belonging to the Matuna family. Note the red pillows.
Interior of an Etruscan tomb in the Banditaccia necropolis
Caere
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Caere is the Latin name given by the Romans to one of the larger cities of southern Etruria, the modern Cerveteri, approximately 50–60 kilometres north-northwest of Rome. To the Etruscans it was known
Example of Greek-style pottery in Caere. Eurytus and Heracles in a symposium. Krater of Corinthian columns called 'Krater of Eurytus', c. 600 BC
An ancient Etruscan vase from Caere (c. 525 BC), depicting Heracles presenting Cerberus to Eurystheus
Pyrgi Tablets, Phoenician-Etruscan bilingual inscription mentioning Caere
Giorces Veii Apollo 1