Caere (Cerveteri)

Caere: city in southern Etruria, modern Cerveteri.

Caere, Banditaccia necropolis, Wall painting of an archer

According to ancient sources founded by Pelasgians
Large archaic cemeteries
City itself 150 hectares (cf. Rome c. 285)
c.540 BCE: Battle of Alalia^note[Hdt. 1.167.]
Contacts with Delphi (own treasury^note[Strabo, Geography 5.2.3.]
Contacts with Carthage (Pyrgi tablets)
c.509 VC: Support Tarquinius^note[Livy, 1.60.2.]
Helps Rome when Gallic warriors besiege the city
386 VC Hospitium publicum; beginning of "Caeretanian rights" = civitas sine suffragio
357-353 VC War of Caere, Tarquinia, and Falerii against Rome
Improved relations
293 or 273 Final revolt and annexation
Normal development in Roman Republic and Empire
Evacuated after Arab attacks; name lives on in Ceri

Caere, Etruscan antefix (silenus)	Caere, Vase with Medea	Caere, Banditaccia necropolis, Tholos tomb	Caere, Banditaccia necropolis, Cippus tomb
Caere, Banditaccia necropolis, Tumulus tomb	Caere, Tomba della Capanna	Caere, Sarcophagus of the Spouses	Caere, Bucchero pottery
Caere, Hunter on horseback	Caere, Etruscan kylix with Menrva