Face of Etruscan woman, interred more than 2,000 years ago. Stone sculpture on Etruscan sarcophagus in archaeological museum at Tarquinia, Lazio, Italy.
Tarquinia, Lazio, Italy: repaired sculpted stone face of a woman, once a citizen of the ancient Etruscan city of Tarchuna or Tarchna, whose reclining effigy lies as if sleeping on the lid of her sarcophagus or tomb chest in the town’s archaeological museum, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale Tarquiniense. The woman was interred in one of the vast necropoli that surrounded the Etruscan settlement. The Monterozzi Necropolis and the other cemeteries were first used in the 7th century BC. Today, they provide many of the exhibits in the museum, which is housed in Palazzo Vitelleschi, an early 15th century former archbishop’s palace in Piazza Cavour. The remains of the ancient Etruscan city, later occupied by the Romans, are now protected and preserved as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Location: National Archaeological Museum, Tarquinia, Lazio, Italy
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
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