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To: SunkenCiv
the stone table on the right might have contained the incinerated remains of another individual

Sure, a real fun loving and eclectic people. What, just like the servants and cats the Egyptians murdered to send along the way with the Pharaohs?

6 posted on 09/28/2013 1:16:57 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: bgill

Like the Romans who followed them, the Etruscans did a lot of cremation of their dead.

However, they also passed down the concept of funereal “games”, apparently; there’s a surviving wall painting showing a man with his head covered by a bag fighting two vicious dogs, for example. It’s possible that it was a form of execution, but the Romans used the occasion of public execution as a basis for (unfair) fights to the death, so...


10 posted on 09/28/2013 1:31:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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