Search Results: Volterra

This brief video displays images of the two necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia for a closer look into these important Etruscan sites.

These two Etruscan necropolises (cemeteries) at Cerveteri and Tarquinia reflect different types of burial practices from the 9th to the 1st century BCE and bear witness to the achievements of Etruscan culture. Source: UNESCO TV / © NHK...

This very brief video is explicitly auditory. It demonstrates the sound of an Etruscan clay rattle from Vulci, Italy (end of 8th century BCE). Sound sample played by Emiliano Li Castro.

An Etruscan gold coin from Populonia. Gold, 5th century BCE.

The François Vase is named after Alessandro François who found the vase in Chiusi in Etruria (central Italy) in 1845 CE. This Athenian volute-krater dates from c. 570-565 BCE and is signed by the potter Ergotimos and the painter Kleitias...

Etruscan terracotta canopic urn with a female head and articulated arms, from Chiusi (Italy), around 550-500 BCE. (Louvre Lens, France)

A bronze votive statuette of a youth. Etruscan, Chiusi, 530-480 BCE. Height: 27.4 cms. (British Museum, London)

Painted terracotta funerary urn lid of an Etruscan woman, from Chiusi, ca. 150-120 BCE (Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Germany).

A reconstruction of a typical 6th century BCE Etruscan temple such as the Portonaccio Temple at Veii, central Italy.

The Etruscans have long been a neglected civilization of the ancient Mediterranean and reading this book you will wonder how on earth that situation was ever allowed to come about. Sybille Haynes has compiled the single most comprehensive...