Tomb of Orcus - Etruscan Necropolis

The Tomb of Orcus, now and again known as the Tomb of Murina, is a 4th-century BC Etruscan hypogeum in Tarquinia, Italy. Discovered in 1868, it shows Hellenistic influences in its first rate murals, which consist of the portrait of Velia Velcha, an Etruscan noblewoman, and the most effective recognised pictorial illustration of the demon Tuchulcha. In fashionable, the work of art are referred to for his or her depiction of dying, evil, and sadness. Because the tomb became built in two sections at degrees, it's miles occasionally called the Tombs of Orcus I and II; it's miles believed to have belonged to the Murina family, an offshoot of the Etruscan Spurinnae.

Orcus I turned into built among 470 and 450 BC; a separate hypogeum, Orcus II, turned into built c. 325 BC. At some factor in antiquity the wall between the two was removed, growing a massive tomb with dromes. The tomb was excavated in 1868 through an officer of the French Army. Upon its discovery, the excavator mistook the painting of a cyclops for the Roman god Orcus, for this reason the name "Tomb of Orcus". The Italian name can also mean "Tomb of the Ogre", and it's far used that manner in Italy nowadays.