Some surveys made between the 60s and 90s in the area between Tarquinia and the coast, have allowed to reconstruct the transformations of the landscape from the protohistoric to the late imperial age. A recent excavation between 2014 and 2015 along the SS1 Aurelia, not far from Tarquinia (so called ‘Pidocchio’ area), unearthed an important kiln for the manufacture of ceramics, active between the end of the third and the first half of the second century BC. In particular, the kiln produced amphoras that could be added to the family of late Republican ‘ovoid amphorae’ (called Tarquinia 1-3) and some jugs and basins of coarse ware. This discovery, that give us new informations on the phase of full romanization of the Tarquinia’s territory and on some of the main production still active in the area, made possible to isolate a new production of ‘ovoid amphorae’ in central Tyrrhenian Italy. About that, in Santa Severa and Torre Astura, have been identified kilns that produced amphorae morphologically similar to those of the ‘Pidocchio’ kiln in Tarquinia. Suggestive is the hypothesis that sees the Tarquinia’s family of the Anes like the owners of the kiln, thanks to the discovery of the inscription ANE – imprinted ante cocturam – in a loom weight found in the locus of the kiln. The noble family of Anes appears in the necropolis of Monterozzi in the so-called tomb ‘Querciola II’, where during the first half of the second century BC was buried Arnth son of Velthur.