Vulci's stone chamber still holds weapons, gold and a banquet set
The Return to Vulci team opened a three-chamber tomb this summer inside a mound mapped in 1889. The burial is about 2700 years old, and side chambers held a bronze tripod and a nearly complete banquet set. Archaeology Magazine reported the same Polledrara tomb, three chambers, weapons, gold and a banquet set, and the 1889 Gsell enclosure.
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Three chambers inside an 1889 mound
The Return to Vulci team opened a three-chamber tomb this summer inside a mound mapped in 1889. Archaeologists opened a 7th-century burial chamber at Vulci, north of Rome. The tomb is about 2700 years old. Stéphane Gsell mapped the mound in 1889. Archaeology Magazine reported a late-seventh-century tomb at Vulci's Polledrara necropolis, with three chambers. The team also identified the circular enclosure of Tumulo Gsell, found in 1889. The page is dated 23 September.[1], [2]
Weapons, gold, and vessels still in place
Christian Mazet, a researcher at the British Museum, describes weapons, chariot parts, gold and fine pottery as the mark of a tomb of the very highest rank. Side chambers held a bronze tripod made on Rhodes and a nearly complete banquet set, some vessels still in place. Archaeology Magazine reported weapons, chariot parts, gold and bronze sheets, and a banquet set. Some banquet vessels were still in their original positions. The tomb is called the Tomb of the Stone Chamber.[1], [2]
The tomb is about 2,700 years old
Both pages put the tomb at Vulci and both keep weapons, gold and a banquet set in the inventory. Live Science adds the 2700-year age, the Rhodes tripod and Mazet's rank description. Archaeology Magazine adds the Polledrara name, the stone-chamber label and the 23 September date of its own page. The 1889 map is on both. The magnitude is one three-chamber tomb, opened this summer, still holding a banquet set with vessels in place. Neither page gives a count of every object, a named occupant, or a date the chambers were sealed. The reader has the place, the age Live Science reports, and the goods both inventories share. The reader sees three chambers, the 1889 enclosure, weapons, gold and a banquet set still in place on both pages. The age and the Rhodes tripod stay on Live Science. The Polledrara name and the stone-chamber label stay on Archaeology Magazine. There is no named occupant, no sealing day and no full object count. The magnitude is one tomb.[1], [2]
