Golini tombs

The two tombs are frescoed with scenes accompanied by inscriptions in the Etruscan language which probably represent the deceased and his arrival in the underworld and his welcome into the afterlife with a banquet prepared in his honor. The original frescoes are preserved in the archaeological museum in Orvieto, and visible in an installation that faithfully reproduces the structure of the funerary chambers. Danish archeologist Frederik Poulsen described the site in 1922: ==Notes on translations of inscriptions==

In the first passage, the French scholar Jacques Heurgon takes the second word, , to be equivalent to Latin legatus in the sense of "ambassador (to Rome)." Toward the end of the same passage, he analyses as "to (-e) those people (-tri-n-) (living along the) Tiber," noting that was an ancient Etruscan term for that river, though it could theoretically also apply to Rome itself. The former is more likely, since means "water." So the sentence might be read: "And he was given () (authority over) water (rights) among the people of the (upper?) Tiber" remaining untranslated—it is generally translated as 'star' in the bilingual Pyrgi Tablets, but it is not clear how that meaning would fit in this context. ==References==