ABSTRACT

The specimen was found in the necropolis of Osteria (Vulci) in a so called “dado tomb” excavated in 1986 under the supervision of Dr. A.M. Moretti, of the Archaeological Superintendency of Southern Etruria. The tomb, previously looted, can be dated to the second half of the sixth century BC from the scanty grave goods found, a bucchero cup, a fragmented oinochoe and remains of an iron spear. Lying on one of funerary beds of the second chamber of the tomb, the skeleton of an adult individual was found.