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Based on similar burials, the wooden head mounted ona bronze urn with grave goods might have looked something like this (illustration by F. Corni):

This basic technology—foundations & walls in squared stone blocks, wooden framework supporting terracotta rooftiles and decorative elements—continued to be used for temples and other public buildings in Rome for many centuries (~6th-1st c. BCE), adding new tuffs and travertine.

Why did the builders of the Archaic temple at S.Omobono go so far afield for stone? We don't know for sure, but maybe because podium was meant to lift the low-lying temple's mudbrick superstructure above the reach of the Tiber's annual flood, and... [out of date image by Ioppolo]