La tomba 231 di Salapia (Cerignola-Fg). Appunti e riconsiderazioni

Found in the necropoles of Salapia during the 1968-1969 excavations was the tomb of a warrior, dated to the second half of the 8th century B.C., including a rich funerary context. This complex contained many personal ornaments, such as bronze fibulae, many bronze armaments, such as kardiophylax, a shield, lances and javelins, but also included a pearl-rim basin and spits. It is interesting to note that some of the material contained in this funerary complex, such as the Villanovian type shield, kardiophylax and pearl-rim basin, were very common in the warrior tombs of the Etruscan necropoles (Veio and Tarquinia particularly) during the advanced Villanovian phase of these Etruscan cities. This material, probably imported from Etruria, constitutes particularly important evidence of very close contacts between the Etruscans and the native populations of Daunia in Apulia as early as the First Iron Age.