This tomb takes its
name from the lictor bundle (a bundle of rods with a two-edged hatchet in
iron), found in the funeral trousseau. This immediately brings to mind the
passage in which the Latin poet Silius Italicus stated that the city of
Vetulonia would have passed on to Rome this symbol of supreme power.
From the tales of Isidoro Falchi, who discovered this tomb at the end of the nineteenth century, we learn that it was a circular tomb, defined by stones driven into the ground, and it presented a grave inside covered with stones and earth. On top of the filling of the grave lay the remains of a cart: the iron rims of the wheels are preserved, as are fragments of the bronze leaf which would have covered the parapet of the cart, decorated with figures of animals, braids, lotus flowers and palms in an oriental style.
In the grave, as well as weapons made of iron and an incense-jar in bronze of Vetulonian production, were placed sumptuous items of jewellery, maybe in a special container. We recall the large brooches decorated with designs of animals both real and mythical, made using the techniques of embossing and granulation, the brooch with a bow shaped like a sphinx and the hatpin with a spherical head, decorated using gold-dust with animal and vegetable motifs.
The objects from this trousseau are currently kept in the storerooms of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale (National Archaeological Museum) of Florence.
From the tales of Isidoro Falchi, who discovered this tomb at the end of the nineteenth century, we learn that it was a circular tomb, defined by stones driven into the ground, and it presented a grave inside covered with stones and earth. On top of the filling of the grave lay the remains of a cart: the iron rims of the wheels are preserved, as are fragments of the bronze leaf which would have covered the parapet of the cart, decorated with figures of animals, braids, lotus flowers and palms in an oriental style.
In the grave, as well as weapons made of iron and an incense-jar in bronze of Vetulonian production, were placed sumptuous items of jewellery, maybe in a special container. We recall the large brooches decorated with designs of animals both real and mythical, made using the techniques of embossing and granulation, the brooch with a bow shaped like a sphinx and the hatpin with a spherical head, decorated using gold-dust with animal and vegetable motifs.
The objects from this trousseau are currently kept in the storerooms of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale (National Archaeological Museum) of Florence.
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