The Tomb of the Sarcophagi belongs to the Tombe del Comune, a group of large 4th–3rd-century BC hypogea outside the main enclosure. It takes its name from four white-marble sarcophagi originally placed on the bench in one of its two chambers: three are now in Cerveteri's National Archaeological Museum and one in the Gregorian Etruscan Museum in the Vatican Museums. Its cubic façade, built of squared blocks, was decorated with macco mouldings and friezes, fragments of which are preserved in Cerveteri's museum.
What to look for
The tomb continues inside the museum: knowing where the sarcophagi and façade fragments are held helps reunite a monument now divided between site and collections.
Discovery and excavation
The number, material and present locations of the sarcophagi, together with the macco façade, are documented in the UNESCO dossier and MiC records.