Just outside Orvieto, on the other hand, the Necropoli di Crocefisso del Tufo was the city’s cemetery from VI to III centuries before Christ. What is striking is the precise order in which the tombs were aligned, an obvious sign of a sort of urban development plan (!) that established the general plan of the site, as well as the architraves of the entrances to the tombs themselves that “announce” the name of the dead (the wording of the inscription is in fact “I am from…”).