Il percorso iniziato con l'edizione dei contesti orientalizzanti e alto-arcaici della necropoli di San Martino trova una sua naturale prosecuzione in quella dei materiali provenienti dal sepolcreto di Monte Cornazzano che, assieme al suo circoscritto insediamento, chiude a SE la corona di siti che compongono l'enclave di Capena. Le indagini condotte a più riprese agli inizi del '900, sulle due alture su cui si distende il sito, portarono in luce 67 tombe, tra fosse e camere ipogee, sviluppatesi, con un'articolata occupazione del territorio, dalla metà dell'VIII secolo a.C. sino alla prima età imperiale. Tutte le strutture individuate erano interessate da cedimenti strutturali e dalla manomissione dei corredi, cui si deve sommare l'assenza di una documentazione consona ai moderni criteri della ricerca scientifica. Nonostante le difficoltà, la ricostruzione filologica dei contesti, attuata attraverso l'uso delle fonti documentali disponibili e dei materiali conservati, ha consentito di ricomporre nel suo insieme un quadro culturale alquanto esaustivo della comunità qui sepolta. Ne sono emerse non solo le prevedibili analogie che l'assimilano alla collettività sepolta nell'adiacente, e più estesa, necropoli-specchio di San Martino, ma anche alcune discontinuità che mettono in evidenza la vitalità e l'estro creativo delle maestranze artigiane locali. Keywords: Capena, Età orientalizzante e arcaica, Archologia funeraria, Impasto inciso, Valle del Tevere Capena. The necropolis of Monte Cornazzano Identity and memory of a community. The journey that began with the edition of the Orientalising and Early Archaic contexts of the San Martino necropolis finds its natural continuation in that of the materials from the Monte Cornazzano burial ground, which, together with its circumscribed settlement, closes the SE ring of sites that make up the Capena enclave. The investigations conducted on several occasions in the early 20th century on the two hills on which the site lies brought to light 67 tombs, including pits and hypogean chambers, which developed, with an articulated occupation of the territory, from the mid-eighth century B.C. to the early imperial age. All the structures identified were affected by the structural collapse and the looting of grave goods, to which must be added the absence of documentation following modern scientific research criteria. Despite the difficulties, the philological reconstruction of the contexts carried out through the use of the available documentary sources and preserved materials, made it possible to reassemble a fairly comprehensive cultural picture of the community buried here. What emerged were not only the predictable similarities that relate it to the community buried in the adjacent, and more extensive, necropolis-mirror of San Martino, but also some discontinuities that highlight the vitality and creative flair of the local craftsmen. Keywords: Capena, Orientalising and Archaic age, Funerary Archaeology, Incised Impasto, Tiber valley

Gilda Benedittini has degree in Etruscology and Italic Antiquities from La Sapienza University of Rome is member of Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici. She has devoted herself over time to the study of the southern Etruscan culture and those falling in the Tiber area. Curator of the Museum delle Antichità etrusche ed italiche dell’Università di Roma La Sapienza for many years, she has directed field excavation research in settlements, necropolises and sanctuaries in the Faliscan, Etruscan and Latin areas. As an archaeological collaborator, she is involved in the protection and conservation of archaeological heritage in the ABAP Superintendencies for the Rome Metropolitan Area, the province of Viterbo, and southern Etruria and the ABAP Superintendency for the Rome Metropolitan Area, and the province of Rieti. She is the author of specialist essays and has edited numerous scientific publications. She collaborates with Italian and foreign institutions.

Etruscologist with a Ph.D. from Sapienza-University of Rome, has long devoted himself to the study of the funerary contexts and material culture of the Ager Faliscus and the Ager Capenas, with particular reference to the orientalising period. In parallel, he has conducted in-depth studies on the Roman archaeological environment between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.