The Tomb of the Griffin is recorded as an archaeological point in Banditaccia's southern sector, near the Ship Tumulus and the Tombe del Comune area. The accessible sources consulted confirm its name and location but do not provide enough evidence to assign a secure date, plan or specific figured find. The griffin is certainly common in Etruscan Orientalising art, but that general fact should not be turned into this tomb's history without an excavation publication.
What to look for
Treat the griffin as a key to Etruscan imagery in general, not as automatic proof of a painting or object found at this location.
Discovery and excavation
Its name and location are documented in territorial lists; its chronology and the origin of the name require a specific archaeological source.