Le Tombe 23 e 36 della Casa di Ricovero di Este (scavo 1984). Nuove letture fra ritualità e iconografia

Forty years after the discovery of the 'Tomb of Nerka Trostiaia', or rather of Tombs 23 and 36 in the necropolis of the Casa di Ricovero of Este, dated to the third century BC and known for the richness and peculiarity of the grave goods, new opportunities for conservation and study have provided an opportunity for their new reading that proposes an integrated interpretation of the two contexts from a multidisciplinary perspective. The ceramic sets, linked to an Etruscan-northern Adriatic circulation, were revised, as were the physical anthropological analyses on the burnt bones, and new studies of the alimentary food offerings and on the presence of artefacts in perishable material (leather?) were carried out. The new conservation, which highlighted the decorative iconographic apparatus that links the two tombs, has allowed a new and more coherent interpretation of the bench model inspired by Strabo description on horse breeding in Veneto. The revision also led to a clarification of the chronology of the burial, a true cornerstone of the late phases of the typo-chronologies of the pre-Roman Veneto, placing it in the third quarter of the 3rd century BC.