Votives, Places and Rituals in Etruscan Religion

by Gleba, Margarita; Becker, Hilary

• ISBN13: 9789004170452
• ISBN10: 9004170456
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

By considering votive, mortuary and secular rituals, the volume offers a contribution to the continued study of Etruscan culture and gathers new material, interpretations and approaches to the less emphasized areas of Etruscan religion.

Author Biography

Margarita Gleba, Ph.D. (2004) in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, is Research Programmer Manager at the Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen. She has published on various aspects of ancient textile production, including Textile Production in pre-Roman Italy (2008), Dressing the Past: Costume through 21st Century Eyes (2008) and Designed for Life and Death (2009). Hilary Becker, Ph.D. (2007) in Classical Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Washington and Lee University. A landscape archaeologist with abiding interests in the modes and mechanisms of production and exchange in ancient Italy, she is currently conducting a study of the economy of North Etruria in the Archaic and Classical periods.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Jean Macintosh Turfa - An Appreciation
Bibliography of Jean Macintosh Turfa
Bibliographic Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
Votives
'Gli Etruschi fuori d'Etruria': Dons et Offrandes Etrusques en Mediterrance Occidentale et dans l'Ouest de l'Europe	p. 15
Les Inscriptions Votives du Sanctuaire de Portonaccio a Veies	p. 43
Textile Tools in Ancient Italian Votive Contexts: Evidence of Dedication or Production?	p. 69
Places
The Economic Agency of the Etruscan Temple: Elites, Dedications and Display	p. 87
The Historical and Religious Context of Vows Fulfilled in Etruscan Temple Foundations	p. 101
Remains of the Ritual at the Sanctuary of Poggio Colla	p. 107
The Cima Tumulus at San Giuliano - An Aristocratic Tomb and Monument for the Cult of the Ancestors of the Late Orientalizing Period	p. 123
Stone Sculpture in the Context of Etruscan Tombs: A Note on its Position	p. 135
Rituals
The Earliest Etruscan Toast. Considerations on the Earliest Phases of Populonia	p. 159
On Mutilated Mirrors	p. 171
Ritual Dress	p. 183
Veiled and Unveiled: Uncovering Roman Influence in Hellenistic Italy	p. 193
On the Enigmatic Deity Lur in the Liber linteus zagrabiensis	p. 217
Cremation and Comminution at Etruscan Tarquinia in the 5th-4th Century B.C.E.: Insights into Cultural Transformations from Tomb 6322	p. 229
Illustrations Section	p. 249
Index of Places	p. 285
General Index	p. 289
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