'Etruscan Treasures' On View At Dallas's Meadows Museum

Antiques and the Arts ^ | February 24th, 2009 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Dallas, Texas: The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University [5900 Bishop Boulevard, 214-768-2516] presents "From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany," a comprehensive exhibition of Etruscan art, on view through May 17. More than 400 objects spanning the Ninth through Second Centuries BC are featured, drawn primarily from the renowned Florence Archaeological Museum, as well as from several smaller Italian museums and private collections. Many of the objects have never before traveled here. A complementary exhibition, "New Light on the Etruscans: Fifteen Years of Excavation at Poggio Colla," presents for the first time in North America the findings from an interdisciplinary archaeological research project, the SMU-led excavations at the Etruscan site of Poggio Colla, near Florence, Italy. Nearly 100 objects from the site are displayed, along with new scientific evidence relating to Etruscan daily life and religious rituals... The Florence Archaeological Museum holds one of the finest collections of Etruscan art in the world, and some of its choicest objects will be shown here, illustrating every aspect of Etruscan life and afterlife over almost 1,000 years. The quality of Etruscan craftsmanship and range of artistic techniques is represented with examples of stone carving, elaborate polychrome terracotta sarcophaguses and funerary urns, sophisticated bronzes, and delicate gold and silver jewelry.

[Sawdring]

In the photo of the helmet, what do you think the holes in the cut out for the face were for? A leather liner, perhaps?

[SunkenCiv]

It seems like they’d almost have had to have a liner of some sort, good catch!