Montetosto, Comune Di Cerveteri, Provincia Di Roma, Regione Lazio

Montetosto, Comune Di Cerveteri, Provincia Di Roma, Regione Lazio

“…Despite limited field research, the Montetosto sanctuary has played a crucial role in scientific debates of the last forty years. According to the reconstruction first proposed by Colonna and subsequently widely accepted, it was erected in the place where the Phocean prisoners were stoned to death after the Battle of Alalia (540 BC); its palatial shape probably hints at the aristocracy's responsibility for the murder and it is ideologically connected with the monumental, earliest tumulus (Belelli Marchesini, Biella, Michetti, 2015, 147–9, 154).…”

“…The finds and data of the excavations of the 1960s were fully published in 2015 (Belelli Marchesini, Biella, Michetti, 2015, 147–9, 154 with previous bibliography) and whilst a better understanding of the site has emerged several questions still remain. In particular the layout of the building itself as well as the possible presence of further structures, either below or in close proximity.…”