Posted on 12/05/2015 10:33:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv
An intact Etruscan tomb, complete with sarcophagi, a full array of grave goods and a mysterious marble head, has has been brought to light in the Umbria region of Italy, in what promises to be one of the most important archaeological findings in recent history. Dated to the end of the 4th century B.C., the burial site was found by a farmer who opened a void in the earth while working with his plow in a field near Citta della Pieve, a small town some 30 miles southwest of Perugia... Dated to the end of the 4th century B.C., the burial site was found by a farmer who opened a void in the earth while working with his plow in a field near Citta della Pieve, a small town some 30 miles southwest of Perugia... The Etruscans were a fun- loving and eclectic people who among other things taught the French how to make wine, the Romans how to build roads, and introduced the art of writing into Europe. They began to flourish around 900 B.C., and dominated much of Italy for five centuries. Known for their art, agriculture, fine metalworking and commerce, they began to decline during the fifth century B.C., as the Romans grew in power. By 300-100 B.C., they eventually became absorbed into the Roman empire... Natalini and her team expect to find more information in the inscription, such as the deceased's family name, the name of his parents, and possibly his age at death. The other sarcophagus, covered with painted plaster, also shows an inscription.
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Okay, that’s funny ! LOL
It’s really difficult to tell...isn’t it? LOL
We were told, in school, that they were indigenous, but other than that, I really don't know.
What exquisite workmanship !
What exquisite workmanship !
LOL....Don Draper, is that who is really buried there ?
The first appearance of J. Michigan Frog? LOL
Gold Disc with Bees, 700-600 BC. Collection of Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
I love the MFA. Between my first visit (hmm, probably late 1970s?) and my second visit (hmm, probably mid-1980s) all those marvelous colossal 4th dynasty statues and sculptures from Giza had been surrounded by those thick velvet ropes. It didn’t stop the feral larvae from climbing all over them, of course.
It was one war after another in the Precolumbian Americas — in Central America one town would make a sneak attack on another, then torture the members of the captured ruling family to death, taking their time about it. One archaeologist who has nothing bad to say about the anti-scientific NAGPRA law, related an anecdote in his book, regarding the find of a precolumbian ossuary (that was news to me); he contacted the local tribal council, talked to someone he’d had a number of contacts with over the years, and was told, no, not ours, that’s some other tribe (he named it, I’m runnin’ on fumes here), “we’ve been killing them for generations”.
Ahh, the good-ole-days...times have changed.
Did you have a chance to visit the Garner [down the Fens a couple of blocks]?
We would go on Sunday afternoons to the Gardner and study near the courtyard, to the sound of live chamber music. Enchanting. ;)
Garner = Gardner
Nope. I didn’t and still don’t like impressionists’ stuff, although they look spectacularly better when viewed in person rather than as a print. As a print they have all the impact of grasspaper wall treatments.
later
:’) Love Kliban.
The Impressionists ability to be rebels and try to capture the essense of the moment in time. That touched the farmgirl in me. Always attuned to what a change in the weather and the subtle differences between a chill in the morning air and a frost that could mean the difference between blossoms setting, and bees coming out of the hive, to do their thing. Geeze.....what am I trying to say?
Never mind ....just another brain f@rt. I'm not making any sense. ;)
Independence; That's it! Independence. >8-0
The question that remains today is how did they do it? In very recent years modern smiths have been able to duplicate the technique using cutting-edge technology but we still have no idea how the Etruscans accomplished it. How were they able to make the beads of such uniform size? How were they able to bond them to gold objects using no flux (a method called eutectic bonding) using ancient technology? No one knows.
I didn't know that the Capitoline Wolf, was considered an Etruscan bronze, feeding the twins Romulus and Remus.
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