Enrico Stefani (born 1869; died 1955) was an Italian architect and archaeologist working in

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and

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during the early twentieth century. Stefani excavated in the Piazza d'Armi at

Veii Veii (also Veius; ) was an important ancient Etruscan city situated on the southern limits of Etruria and north-northwest of Rome, Italy. It now lies in Isola Farnese, in the comune of Rome. Many other sites associated with and in the city-st ...

in 1917 and in 1919. In 1935, at

, Stefani directed the

excavation Excavation may refer to: * Archaeological excavation * Excavation (medicine) * ''Excavation'' (The Haxan Cloak album), 2013 * ''Excavation'' (Ben Monder album), 2000 * ''Excavation'' (novel), a 2000 novel by James Rollins * '' Excavation: A Mem ...

of a ''

tumulus A tumulus (: tumuli) is a mound of Soil, earth and Rock (geology), stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds, mounds, howes, or in Siberia and Central Asia as ''kurgans'', and may be found through ...

''-type tomb known as the Monte Tondo di Vaccareccia.

Bibliography

*"Scoperte archeologiche nell’agro capenate", in "Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana" XXXVIII, 1912, pp. 147–158 *"Veio, tempio detto dell’Apollo : esplorazione e sistemazione del santuario", in ''Atti della Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. Notizie degli scavi di antichità'', 8.ser., 7 (1953), pp. 29–112. *"Capena, scoperte archeologiche nell’agro capenate. Ricerche archeologiche nella contrada Le Saliere", in "Monumenti Antichi dei Lincei" XLIV, 1958, coll. 2–204.

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20th-century Italian archaeologists Classical archaeologists 1869 births 1955 deaths Italian expatriates in Greece {{Italy-archaeologist-stub