The hypogeum of the Velimna (in Latin, Volumni) family was discovered in 1840 at what proved to be the edge of the Palazzone Necropolis.   Very few grave goods were found in place, which suggests that the hypogeum had been violated at an earlier date. 

The inscription (CIE 3754) that can still be seen on the right door jamb of the entrance reads:

arnth larth velimnas/ arzneal husiur/ suthi acil hece

Arnth [and] Larth Velimnas, sons of Arznei, placed [this] tomb [and] gifts [here]

The layout of the hypogeum is similar to that of an Etruscan villa:

1. ✴The main entrance (illustrated at the top of this page) opens into a large central atrium, the ceiling of which imitates a pitched wooden roof.   The relief above the entrance depicts a medusa between dolphins.
   

2. ✴The room beyond, which corresponds to the tablinum (dining room), still contains the seven urns (see below) discovered in 1840.  
   

3. ✴There are two smaller rooms to each side of the tablinum and two more off each side of the atrium.   These were presumably intended to house the urns of later generations, but they seem never to have been used.  Indeed, some of them were never finished.
   

Each of the rooms of the hypogeum has a coffered ceiling and a shelf carved into the rock on which urns could be placed.  [Two of them have Medusa's heads in shields on the ceiling, and a crested snake projecting from the wall.  One of these rooms has an owl in relief in each corner, and a snake's head below it.] 

Cinerary Urns in the Tablinum

The tablinum contains seven urns, six of which are made of travertine covered with stucco decoration.  In each of these, the ashes are interred in a high pedestal, with the deceased reclining (or in one case sitting) above and identified by an Etruscan inscription. 

Arnth Velimnas, son of Aule

Male Relations of Arnth Velimnas

1. ✴Vel and Larth Velimnas, sons of Aule and thus Arnth's brothers;
   

2. ✴Aule Velimnas Thephrisa Nuphrznal, who was probably the father; and
   

3. ✴Thephri Velimnas Tarchis Clan, who was probably the grandfather.
   

Larth was the  co-founder of the hypogeum, but the position of his urn suggests that he died after his (presumably younger) brother Vel.  The urns of Vel, Larth and Aule are very similar: each of these men reclines (like Arnth) on the lid of his urn, so that they seem to be sharing a meal.  The urn of Thepri (on the right in this photograph) is much simpler and is oddly detached near the entrance to the tablinum, which suggests that it was moved here from its original location. 

Veilia Velimnei Arnthial

Publius Volumnius Violens, son of Aulus 

Despite the very Roman character of the urn, it has a bilingual funerary inscription:

1. ✴The Latin inscription on the lintel of the door to the fictive temple, which identifies the deceased as:
   

2. P[UBLIUS] VOLUMNIUS A[ULI] F[ILIUS] VIOLENS
   

3.  CAFATIA NATUS
   

4. The Latin "Cafatia natus" reveals that the mother of Publius Volumnis was called Cafatia.  He was obviously very “Romanised”, and had adopted a Roman cognomen, Violens.   This was presumably meant to imply descent from Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens, who was the first plebian to become Consul in Rome, in 307 BC.  
   

5. ✴The Etruscan inscription, which also uses the Etruscan alphabet, appears on the lid of his urn:   
   

pup[li] velimna au[le] cahatial

1. "Cahatial" must have had the same meaning in Etruscan as the Latin "Cafatia natus".
   

The inscription is put into context in the page on Etruscan Inscriptions  after 295BC.

Other Members of the Volumni Family 

Three inscriptions also in the Museo Archeologico (exhibits 243-5) commemorate later members of the family:

1. ✴Part of the travertine funerary inscription of Lucius Volumnius Perusinus (243) came from an unknown location.
   

2. ✴The funerary inscription of Volumnius Primigenius and his wife Caenia Crescens (244)was found near the church of San Costanzo in 1742.
   

3. ✴An inscription commemorating Publius Volumnius Violens, son of Publius (245) was preserved in San Francesco delle Donne until 1815. 
   

Publius Volumnius Violens, son of Publius had served as quattuorvir and then duovir, and the inscription relates to something (presumably a statue) that the citizens and other inhabitants of Perusia had dedicated to him.  The change of the form of the magistracy of Perugia pointed up in this inscription is thought to have occurred after the Perusine War (40 BC).  It is interesting to note that he survived this upheaval with his prestige in tact.

This Publius Volumnius Violens may have been the son of man who had chosen to be buried in the hitherto closed family hypogeum shortly after 9 BC, although this implies that he achieved the rank of quattuorvir at an early age and that his father died at an unusually late age.   It is perhaps more likely that the men were cousins.