The Etruscans actually treated women equally with men - they would even dine together. Probably why they were ejected from Asia Minor. :-))
The Etruscans actually treated women equally with men - they would even dine together. Probably why they were ejected from Asia Minor. :-))
(I think it was) Some relative of Napoleon’s was given the concession to pot-hunt some large Etruscan site. His crews found so much like-new pottery in the tombs and graves that he figured he’d flood his monopoly market, and had most of the artifacts smashed.
That one is a lovely piece, and like most Etruscan stuff, comes from a burial. They may have influenced Rome with their preference for cremation, but inhumation was also practiced among the E’s. One of their symbolic acts was the passing of a hen’s egg from one to another, a symbol found in both terracotta works (such as that nice one above that you posted, thanks!) and in paintings and I think their bronzes.