It consists of about 200 chamber-like tombs excavated in the natural soil. Inside the necropolis, the Volumni Hypogeum, distinguished for the complexity of its internal arrangement and decorative commitment, belonged to the "Volumni", i.e. the rich Velimna family.
The sepulcher—one of the most significant examples of the funerary architecture of the Hellenistic Age—reproduces the canonic arrangement of rooms of a Roman Domus. The main spaced, called "tablinum", houses seven cinerary depositions, all kept inside urns, whose lids reproduce the portrait-like-features of the deceased.
The necropolis dates mostly to the Hellenistic Age—between the 3rd and 1st century B.C.—while a nucleus of five tombs—in two different areas—dates from the second half of the 6th beginning of the 5th century B.C., i.e. the Archaic Age.

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