Sopraripa t.4, “Tomba della Sirena”
The Tomb of the Siren, a Roman funerary monument, presents a broad, slightly tapering rectangular façade, topped by a projecting cornice and a relief-…
302 documented tombs across Italy, each with real history, a location, and (where available) a photo. A sample below; the full set travels with you offline in the Atika app.
The Tomb of the Siren, a Roman funerary monument, presents a broad, slightly tapering rectangular façade, topped by a projecting cornice and a relief-…
La necropoli preromana dei Liguri Apuani sorge ai piedi della collina di Costa Celle lungo la sponda destra del fiume Magra. Individuata e in parte di…
The Tomba dei Giganti, or Giants’ Tomb, is a type of monumental collective burial found in Sardinia, built by the Nuragic civilisation. These structur…
On a rocky Roman roadside, the façade of Tomb 14 at P. Stanziale is carved directly into the living stone. A broad arched niche, nearly two and a half…
At P. Grezzano, a Roman columbarium tomb is cut into an inaccessible rock face, its entrance a mere 63 centimetres wide, set low on the right. Rough s…
The Tumulo Etrusco del Molinello, near Asciano, is a chamber tomb cut into the living travertine, its entrance facing southeast. A long descending dro…
In a steeply pitched stretch of Italian countryside, a curious structure blends almost seamlessly into a cluster of rustic farmhouses. This is the Cas…
The Complesso Domus Suas is a Sardinian funerary site that layers different building traditions, each speaking to a distinct chapter of the island’s p…
At P. Felceto, a Roman tomb carved into the rockface has broken away from the cliff behind it and slipped a little downhill. The façade, only slightly…
In the necropolises of ancient Italy, tombs were often carved directly into the living tufa rock, creating doorways to the underworld that mimicked th…
Necropoli di Albintimilium, Tomba 145 This tomb is a study in Roman pragmatism and piecemeal building. The ground here was uneven, a natural depressi…
This solitary structure stands on steep ground near a spring, a simple block of three rectangular levels. The semi-basement, with two rooms, was for a…
In the quiet Sardinian countryside, the Tomba di giganti Sa Domu Beccia stands as a monumental relic of the Nuragic civilisation. These ‘giants’ tombs…
At the top of Monte Luna, prehistoric traces linger: fragments of huts, obsidian blades, and the rock-cut chambers known as domus de janas, all from a…
Along the old Postumia road, now the Via Emilia, just outside Tortona, three Roman tombs still stand. This area was a burial ground from the late Iron…
This is the carved face of a small Roman tomb of the ‘a dado’ type, a cube-shaped monument, once a common sight along the consular roads of ancient It…
In a flat, sun-bleached field near Pianura stands the ruin of a Roman tomb, a two-storey mausoleum built from neat blocks of yellow tufa. It originall…
viale commemorativo/ ai caduti della prima guerra mondiale…
A giant's tomb near the Sardinian coast. This type of megalithic gallery grave, built by the Nuragic civilisation, typically features a long, rectangu…
At Folonia, a Roman tomb carved from tufo stone presents a puzzle of architectural fragments. The facade, originally about 173 centimetres wide, featu…
On the Sopraripa ridge, this Roman tomb cuts a striking figure from the living rock. Its facade, roughly three metres wide and slightly tapered as it …
On the western slopes of Bonaria hill, edging the monumental cemetery of Cagliari, lies a layered burial ground that speaks in several ancient tongues…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 43 D2 no. 30 (tombs near Villa Adriana)…
A tomb on the Via Appia dated ca. 50 CE.…
At the western edge of Hadrian’s vast country retreat, a peculiar sacred precinct unfolds. Two modest temples face each other across a broad plaza or …
The Tomba del Sileno, a third-century BCE Etruscan tomb at the Sovana Archaeological Park in Grosseto, takes its name from a single, weathered bas-rel…
A rock-cut necropolis of Caere that is noted as the findspot of the Sarpedon krater of the artist Euphronios.…
An Etruscan tomb located at Castellina in Chianti in Italy.…
A Roman tomb of the fourth century C.E. built in opus listatum.…
Monte Aguzzo di Formello (Rome), the site of a tumulus along the road leading for Veii to the Ager Faliscus.…
Two Roman columbaria are located under the present via Pescara, 2. This accounts for the tomb being referred to interchangeably with two modern, stree…
A circular Roman mausoleum with a distinctive cupola located at the ninth mile of the Via Appia.…
The Via Basiliano necropolis, an ancient burial ground, came to light only in 1997, revealed by the shovel of a construction crew in what is now the P…
In a quiet corner of Ravenna, the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia presents an unassuming brick exterior. Step inside, however, and the effect is transform…
A painted hypogeum tomb of the fourth century A.D. discovered in 1923 between the via Livenza and the via Po.…
Rock-cut tombs located along the remains of a road dating as early as the sixth century B.C.…
A seventh- and sixth-century B.C. Etruscan necropolis located in the territory of Heba.…
A Roman funerary monument of the first century B.C. that is traditionally associated with the prefect Lucius Pomponius Grecinus.…
A necropolis located to the north of ancient Falerii Veteres containing more than 67 tombs.…
On the outskirts of Rome, near the modern settlement of Ponte Galeria, lies the imperial necropolis of Castel Malnome. Here, archaeologists have ident…
On the outskirts of Quartucciu, the archaeological site of Pill’è Matta quietly holds the layered evidence of a Punic-Roman necropolis. For nearly a m…
A monumental rock-cut necropolis at Tuscania.…
A Roman tomb on the Via Flaminia at Grottarossa that is associated with Annia Aurelia Fadilla, the daughter of the emperor Marcus Aurelius.…
A columbarium tomb located on the grounds of the Villa Wolkonsky in Rome, Italy.…
The Tomb of Marcus Antonius Antius Lupus is located at the third mile of the via Ostiensis.…
An early Christian necropolis with tombs dating to the fourth through sixth centuries CE in the Italian comune of Vieste.…
A pre-Roman and Roman period necropolis on the outskirts of Teramo.…
An Etruscan tomb of the seventh century B.C.…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 16 E2 Bordighera…
Along the ancient Via Iulia Augusta, this Roman mansio once offered travellers rest and fresh horses. But the site’s true story unfolded later, when a…
An Etruscan tumulus dating to the seventh century B.C. at the locality known as La Collina in the comune of San Casciano in Val di Pesa.…
The Etruscan necropolis of Madonna dell’Olivo lies a couple of kilometres south-west of Tuscania, commanding a view over the valley of the Marta river…
An Etruscan necropolis with a number of tumulus-type tombs dating between the eighth and sixth centuries BC.…
On the ancient Via Praenestina, a late republican to early imperial columbarium endures, its rectangular plan a quiet testament to Roman funerary prac…
A Christian catacomb located at the tenth mile of the ancient Via Labicana.…
Roman necropolis in the modern town of Melano, Switzerland, containing 29 burials dated to the 1st-2nd centuries CE.…
At the Etruscan necropolis of Vetulonia, the Tomba del Duce is a striking early monument to power and exchange. Dating to the late eighth century BCE,…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 19 B3 Arbedo…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 19 B3 Giubiasco…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 19 E3 Lozzo di Cadore…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 19 E3 Pieve di Cadore…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 19 E3 Ponte nelle Alpi…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 19 A3 Solduno…
An ancient pyramid, thrusting abruptly from the Roman traffic, is a disorienting sight. This is the tomb of a magistrate named Caius Cestius, a member…
The Crocifisso del Tufo necropolis, the principal burial ground of the ancient Etruscan city of Volsinii, reached its greatest extent between roughly …
At the ancient Etruscan site of Veii, the Tomba dei Leoni Ruggenti, the Tomb of the Roaring Lions, holds a singular place in the history of funerary a…
A villa and a number of burials located along the Via Laurentina, dating from the fourth century BC to the second century AD.…
A Roman columbarium tomb located on the Via Latina.…
The Martini-Marescotti Tomb is an Etruscan burial in the Monte Abatone necropolis of ancient Caere. It belongs to the late sixth or early fifth centur…
The Cavetta necropolis at Pantalica includes tombs and rock-cut houses of the prehistoric and later periods.…
Burial ground containing 28 burials dated to the Etruscan period.…
The tomb of a baker, built where two ancient roads, the via Labicana and via Praenestina, slipped out of Rome’s eastern walls. This is no austere monu…
The Late Republican tomb of the freedman Hilarus Fuscus along the Via Appia (ca. 30 B.C.).…
The Tomb of the Ducks at Veii is a remarkably early example of painted Etruscan funerary art, discovered in 1958 in the Riserva del Bagno necropolis a…
A rock-cut Etruscan tomb dating to the second half of the seventh century B.C.…
An Etruscan tumulus of the seventh century B.C.…
On the southern fringes of Rome, where the city’s ancient suburbium once blurred into farmland, lies the necropolis of Vallerano. Excavated in the ear…
A tomb near Sesto Fiorentino, that dates to the seventh century B.C.…
A tholos-type tomb dating to the seventh century B.C.…
The Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter lies some 3 km southeast of Rome along the ancient Via Labicana. They date to the fourth century A.D.…
At the northern edge of the Campus Martius, a great cylinder of brick and travertine once dominated the Roman skyline. This is the Mausoleum of August…
On a tufaceous plateau above the valley of the Fosso della Lenta, the Ferrone Necropolis offers a quiet encounter with Etruscan mortality. Here, betwe…
An Etruscan necropolis south of Sovicille in the province of Siena. The tombs date from the fifth century B.C. onward.…
The Etruscan necropolis of Pianacce lies just beyond the centre of Sarteano, a scatter of rock-cut tombs that span the sixth to the second centuries B…
A monumental rock-cut Etruscan tomb that dates to the later fourth century B.C.…
An Etruscan necropolis located 5 km from Tolfa with tombs stretching from the Orientalizing period to the later Hellenistic.…
A necropolis located along a road that once led to the Mater Matuta sanctuary composed of approximately 50 tombs.…
The Grotta Campana at Veii is an Etruscan burial complex discovered by Giampietro Campana in 1843.…
At the heart of Puglia’s baked-gold landscape, near Gravina, lies Vagnari, a Roman estate that was far more than a farm. For three centuries, from the…
A Roman chamber tomb now located on the grounds of the Policlinico Umberto I hospital in Rome.…
The so-called “Isis Tomb” at Vulci survives only as a puzzle of notes and objects, its exact location lost when the excavation was backfilled in the 1…
Byzantine tombs at the site belong to the sixth century when the Temple of Concordia was converted into a Christian church.…
A Christian catacomb on the ancient Via Latina used during the fourth century.…
A late-Republican tomb located on the slope of the Quirinal Hill at Rome, now built into Palazzo San Felice (via della Dataria 21).…
On the wooded slopes above Sirolo, the Picene necropolis known as I Pini di Sirolo offers a quiet encounter with a civilisation that flourished in the…
The Tomb of Caius Cartilius Poplicola stands just outside the Porta Marina of Ostia, a sturdy monument to a man of substance. Dating to around 30-20 B…
A corridor-type tomb in the territory of Vetulonia dating to the Orientalizing period.…
At Poggio Gramignano, a Roman villa in the Terni province of Umbria, the stones speak of two very different lives. The first is familiar enough: subst…
On the right bank of the Tiber stands a monument that began as a tomb for emperors and ended as a papal stronghold. The Mausoleum Hadriani was built b…
An Etruscan tholos tomb of the seventh century B.C. at Vetulonia.…
The Strozzacapponi necropolis, a scatter of Etruscan tombs south of Perugia, offers a quiet encounter with a civilisation that preceded Rome. Dating f…
The Catacomb of Balbina belongs to Rome’s vast suburban underworld of burial tunnels, a network that grew along the consular roads as early Christians…
On the edge of the Parco Papacci, a hulking wreck of Roman concrete and travertine hunkers down in the grass. This is the so-called “Sepolcro dei Veie…
The so-called tomb of the Latin poet Virgil.…
The tomb of Aulus Hirtius, consul in 43 B.C., was discovered beneath the northwest corner of the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome in 1938.…
A Late Antique hypogeum tomb discovered in 1911 and dedicated to Trebius Iustus and Honoratia Severina.…
The Pian del Vescovo is the western necropolis of Blera, and perhaps its most extensive. This Etruscan cemetery, dating to the seventh and sixth centu…
A rock-cut Etruscan necropolis located at Blera.…
The tomb of the boy poet Quintus Sulpicius Maximus on the Via Salaria in Rome. He died in 94 CE, aged just 11 years.…
A third-century AD hypogeum tomb on the Esquiline Hill in Rome with both pagan and Paleochristian iconography.…
The Ponte Rotto necropolis is associated with the Etruscan city of Vulci.…
An Etruscan necropolis located to the south of the city of Orvieto with tombs ranging in date from the eighth to the third centuries B.C.…
In Rome’s Doria Pamphili park, a well-preserved tomb from the late republican and early imperial periods offers a quiet glimpse into Roman funerary cu…
A tomb of the Republican period belonging to the freedman family of the Rabirii.…
On the Via Latina, just outside Rome, stands the Sepolcro dei Pancrazi, a Roman tomb from the late first or early second century CE. It belonged to a …
Morroni dei Marsi, the remains of two mausolea dating to the Roman period.…
The Golasecca culture, a Celtic civilisation that flourished in northern Italy long before the Romans, is known largely through its tombs. The necropo…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 39 D2 Sesto Calende…
An early imperial columbarium tomb on the Via Appia.…
A Roman columbarium on the Via Appia close to the Porta Latina. The columbarium was excavated in 1831 by Pietro Campana.…
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