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New textile finds from Tomba dell’Aryballos sospeso, Tarquinia: Context, analysis and preliminary interpretation
  • Language: en

New textile finds from Tomba dell’Aryballos sospeso, Tarquinia: Context, analysis and preliminary interpretation

Published in Origini n. XL/2017. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations | An intact chamber tomb dated between the end of the Orientalising and early Archaic periods (terminus ante quem 630-620 BC) was discovered in 2013 in the Doganaccia necropolis of the Etruscan city of Tarquinia. Tomb 6423, nicknamed Tomba dell’Aryballos sospeso, contained an inhumation of a female, as well as a cremation of a male, both accompanied by sumptuous burial gifts. Remains of several different fabrics were found inside two bronze objects associated with the inhumation, the pyxis and the basin. The bronze sheet pyxis contained both organic and mineralised fragments of threads and textiles of greenish and purplish colour, while among the organic contents of the bronze basin some open tabby fabric fragments were found. The paper presents the results of textile, fibre and dye analyses of these important new finds, and offers some preliminary thoughts regarding their possible function and significance.

Etruscology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1856

Etruscology

This handbook has two purposes: it is intended (1) as a handbook of Etruscology or Etruscan Studies, offering a state-of-the-art and comprehensive overview of the history of the discipline and its development, and (2) it serves as an authoritative reference work representing the current state of knowledge on Etruscan civilization. The organization of the volume reflects this dual purpose. The first part of the volume is dedicated to methodology and leading themes in current research, organized thematically, whereas the second part offers a diachronic account of Etruscan history, culture, religion, art & archaeology, and social and political relations and structures, as well as a systematic treatment of the topography of the Etruscan civilization and sphere of influence. 

Dependency and Social Inequality in Pre-Roman Italy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 516
A Companion to the Etruscans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 532

A Companion to the Etruscans

This new collection presents a rich selection of innovative scholarship on the Etruscans, a vibrant, independent people whose distinct civilization flourished in central Italy for most of the first millennium BCE and whose artistic, social and cultural traditions helped shape the ancient Mediterranean, European, and Classical worlds. Includes contributions from an international cast of both established and emerging scholars Offers fresh perspectives on Etruscan art and culture, including analysis of the most up-to-date research and archaeological discoveries Reassesses and evaluates traditional topics like architecture, wall painting, ceramics, and sculpture as well as new ones such as texti...

The Etruscan World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2021

The Etruscan World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-11-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the foresail for fast long-distance sailing vessels, fine techniques of metal production and other pyrotechnology, post-mortem C-sections in medicine, and more. In art, many technical and iconographic developments, although they certainly happened first in Greece or the Near East, are first seen in extant Etruscan works, preserved in the lavish tombs and goods of E...

Medieval Trade in Central Europe, Scandinavia, and the Balkans (10th-12th Centuries)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Medieval Trade in Central Europe, Scandinavia, and the Balkans (10th-12th Centuries)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-08-10
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The aim of this work is to attempt to verify the theoretical concepts associated with the idea of trade and merchants activities in the 10th - 12th century within the extensive body of written sources available. The main case study is trading within the range of the influence of the Ottonian Empire and Byzantium.

Tarquinia etrusca
  • Language: it
  • Pages: 158

Tarquinia etrusca

  • Categories: Art

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Etruscan Orientalization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 110

Etruscan Orientalization

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-08-16
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Etruscan Orientalization outlines the modern influences of orientalism, nationalism, and colonialism in the terms ‘orientalizing’ and ‘orientalization’ to reconsider their use in describing Mediterranean connectivity in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE.

Underworld
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Underworld

  • Categories: Art

Abundantly illustrated, this essential volume examines depictions of the Underworld in southern Italian vase painting and explores the religious and cultural beliefs behind them. What happens to us when we die? What might the afterlife look like? For the ancient Greeks, the dead lived on, overseen by Hades in the Underworld. We read of famous sinners, such as Sisyphus, forever rolling his rock, and the fierce guard dog Kerberos, who was captured by Herakles. For mere mortals, ritual and religion offered possibilities for ensuring a happy existence in the beyond, and some of the richest evidence for beliefs about death comes from southern Italy, where the local Italic peoples engaged with Gre...