Word: lucanians
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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Sestieri pressed on, uncovered about 25 kennel-shaped tombs, each six feet long by a yard wide. Outwardly identical with Greek tombs elsewhere in Paestum, these sepulchers were distinguished by livelier and peculiarly individualistic interior paintings of chariot races, departing warriors, gladiators. Sestieri's conclusion: the conquering Lucanians not only took over the Greeks' city, but pre-empted their tombs as well. Executed by Greek artists under Lucanian orders, the sepulchral paintings, he believes, indicate the existence of a previously unknown style of early Italian...
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