SALOTTO ETRUSCO

28 january 2025 – 18.00

Alessandro Naso & Martina Zinni
”Recent research on the necropolis of Sasso Pinzuto at Tuscania”

The Sasso Pinzuto necropolis is one of the main Etruscan burial sites at Tuscania. More than one hundred chamber tombs have been documented and they have been in use mostly from the early 7th to the 5th cent. BC. Like other necropoleis around Tuscania it has yielded rests of terracotta decoration belonging to a roof of a naiskos, dated to the early 6th cent. BC.

Alessandro Naso is Professor of Etruscology and Italic Antiquities at the University of Naples Federico II. Naso’s interest includes Etruscan and other cultures of pre-Roman Italy, topics on which he has published substantially. He is currently conducting research in and around the Etruscan city of Tuscania (VT), where he is director of the Tuscania Archaeological Project (TAP).

Martina Zinni is Research Fellow at the University of Naples Federico II. An Etruscologist, Zinni’s main scientific interest concerns the Etruscan and Italic culture of pre-Roman Italy, especially its Archaic and Hellenistic phases. She is currently conducting a research project entitled: “Death and burial in pre-Roman Italy: the necropolis of Sasso Pizzuto in Tuscania (VT )”.