Etruscan

ISBN: 9780292756816
Published by : University of Texas Press
These essays explore the emergence of scale and monumentality as key factors in pre-Imperial Roman and Etruscan building and the social and political strategies which they reflect. They address questions both of technical developm... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407311869
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Volume: 2565
This volume presents and analyses a catalogue of all 232 sites of the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Latium vetus for which the location is known with certainty, including settlements, tombs, hoards and ritual loci. The catalogue i... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300179538
Published by : Yale University Press
This informative and engaging book on the Museum's outstanding collection of Etruscan art also provides an introduction to the fascinating and diverse culture of ancient Etruria, which thrived in central Italy from about 900 to 10... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415673082
Published by : 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 trus... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407310213
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2422
The development of settlement in the region between Chiusi and Volterra (northern Etruria, corresponding to the modern territory of Siena), from the Iron Age to the end of the Romanization period (9th-1st century BC), is a much-debated subject amo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107009073
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar is a rare document of omens foretold by thunder. It long lay hidden, embedded in a Greek translation within a Byzantine treatise from the age of Justinian. The first complete English translation ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842174678
Published by : Oxbow Books
Chariots and Other Wheeled Vehicles in Italy before the Roman Empire presents evidence for transport by wheeled vehicle in Italy before the Roman Imperial period, the beginning of which is often thought to be marked by Augustuss conquest... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781887829816
Published by : John Humphrey
These seven articles (plus introduction and conclusion) focus on the sanctuaries of Etruria and the attendant rituals of the Etruscans. They include some of the latest evidence from four Etruscan sacred sites - Tarquinia, Orvieto, Poggio Colla ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783895007798
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Volume: 9
English summary: In contrast to the tombs and shrines, the pre-Roman houses of Italy have been poorly studied. Although Etruscan studies have for some time been concerned with living quarters of the early Iron Age and the Archaic period, th... .... Learn More