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Detailed explanation-1: -The Tomba Regolini-Galassi is named after the Italian priest Alessandro Regolini and the general Vicenzo Galassi, who discovered it in 1836 CE at the Sorbo necropolis just outside Cerveteri.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Tomb of the Reliefs (Italian: Tomba dei Rilievi) is a late fourth or early third century B.C.E. rock-cut tomb (hypogeum) located in the Banditaccia necropolis of the ancient Etruscan city-state of Caere (now Cerveteri) in Italy (a necropolis is a large, ancient cemetery).
Detailed explanation-3: -It was discovered in 1847 and has been dated to the end of the 4th century BC. It is a unique example of an Etruscan tomb which is decorated with stucco reliefs instead of the usual frescoes.
Detailed explanation-4: -One of the masterpieces of the Early Etruscan art, a gold ornament manufactured from the Orientalizing art period, a fibula with Orientalizing lions, was discovered in the Regolini-Galassi (named for the excavators) Tomb, which belonged to a wealthy Etruscan family.