Ipogeo Volumni, Perugia

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	The Hypogeum Volumni underground Etruscan tomb is of uncertain date but due to the third century BC The underground is located southeast of Perugia, Ponte San Giovanni. It was the family tomb of Arunte Volumnio (Arnth Veltimna Aules, in Etruscan) of Gens Volumnia, ancient Roman patrician family. The tomb belongs to the largest archaeological site of the Necropolis of Palazzone (VI-V century BC), which has a large number of underground tombs and a museum with urns and other relics found after the excavations. The tomb is reached via a corridor to the stairs (dromos) going down a few feet below the surface, at the end of it, is the underground entrance. Inside the tomb. To accompany the deceased lying on a triclinium, two angels of death Beyond the door is a large vestibule, from which you can access four small side rooms and three bedrooms central, larger: one of these urns containing the remains of the main breadwinners. The urn is Arnth travertine and is topped by a triclinium on which he is shown lying. The inscriptions are in Latin and in Etruscan. The tomb was in use prior to the first century, only to be rediscovered February 5, 1840, after refurbishment of the street Assisana, joining Bridge St. John in Perugia by location Piscille. On that occasion, a building was erected in defense of underground and having functions of a small museum. In the '70s, following the construction of a massive motorway viaduct Perugia-Bettolle, the nineteenth-century building was consolidated by a reinforced concrete construction.

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