Survey of Looted Etruscan Chamber Tombs

   Since 2016, over 600 Etruscan chamber tombs have been recorded through archaeological pedestrian survey in the San Giuliano Necropolis. This map shows the positions of these tombs (balloons labelled T). The tombs concentrate in the escarpments of the hills that surround the eastern end of the San Giuliano plateau. The insert at the top left shows the nomenclature used for survey grid squares. Each square measures 5 seconds in both latitude and longitude, and these squares are each labeled with a letter (denoting N-S orientation) and a number (denoting E-W orientation). Tombs are then counted sequentially according to their quadrant and quantity. For example, the Etruscan chamber tomb E13-035 (shown on this map in blue), is labeled in reference to its quadrant - E13 - and its numerical order - the 35th tomb found in that quadrant. The gray squares in the top left insert are those areas where the survey of tombs was completed by the end of a given season. The remaining areas, with very few exceptions, are located on plateau tops where chamber graves logically could not be built. Some of these plateaus have earlier Etruscan and Villanovan trench graves cut down directly into the tuff bedrock. The trench graves (tombe a fossa) excavated in 2018, 2019 and 2022 are shown here in green.