Description
The catalogue presents and analyzes objects of warfare, weaving, animals, religious beliefs, architectural and terracotta roofing ornaments, Etruscan bronze-working for utensils, weapons, and artwork, and fine, generic portraiture. It discusses the symbolic meaning of such objects deposited in tombs as a chariot buried with a Faliscan lady at Narce, a senator's folding stool buried in a later tomb at Chiusi, and a pair of horse bits with the teeth of a chariot team still adhering to them where the teeth fell when sacrificed for a funeral in the fifth-century necropolis at Tarquinia-much later than the horse sacrifice was previously known in Etruria.
About the Author
Jean MacIntosh Turfa is Lecturer in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College.
Book Information
ISBN 9781931707527
Author Jean MacIntosh Turfa
Format Hardback
Page Count 432
Imprint University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Weight(grams) 666g
Dimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 15mm