Memorie dall’Ager Veientanus: il tumulo di Casal Selce

The Orientalizing period serves as an exceptional framework for examining the archaeology of memory among the peoples of the mid-Tyrrhenian area. The extensive corpus of available archaeological evidence facilitates a systematic exploration of how collective cultural memory has been concretized, particularly through the intricate semantic system of social self-representation manifested in funerary contexts. This encompasses material forms, rituals, customs, performative practices, and the intangible heritage of ideologies and beliefs. The recent discovery of a new tumulus from the Orientalizing period in the Veii region, which, due to its chronology and the artefacts recovered, can rightfully be classified among the so-called princely tombs, provides an opportunity to reflect on this subject.