The archaeological park of Sutri, in Lazio, has an extension of seven hectares. It houses an enormous rock necropolis, the greatest example of Roman funerary architecture in the Etruscan-Faliscan territory. In the necropolis there are 64 tombs dug directly into the tuff on different levels. All of this represents a journey of about 180 meters along the tuffaceous ridge that flanked the ancient Via Cassia.
The archaeological park of Sutri unique in the world
Among the sepulchres, there are chamber tombs, double chamber tombs, tombs preceded by an arched entrance, rectangular niches, with or without recesses for cineraries and arcosolia. Interesting is the use in funerary rites of inhumation (burial on the ground) and incineration. The most common type of mixed rite tomb is made up of two niches, one containing a sarcophagus and another to represent the deposition of the buried, in addition to the floor excavated to house the body. The necropolis remained in use until the end of the 1st century BC. C. up to the III-IV century AD. (read more)
Photo Parco Naturale Regionale dell’Antichissima Città di Sutri
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