Funerary Painting and Architecture in Daunia between IV and III century B.C. Models and cultural influences

During the 4th century BC, Daunian aristocracies reach their apex established by the large funerary assemblages but, above all, by the large funerary structures, which arise in this period. These were exemplary expressions of the need of ruling families to emphasize their prestige by constructing monumental houses of the dead: the semichamber and the chamber tombs.