The Etruscan World (Routledge Worlds)

Matthias Recke – Circular holes on the back or underside of the votive are sometimes identifi ed as vent- holes for fi ring, t ...

chapter 59: Science as art – Although the paint is usually poorly preserved, it is known that the anatomical votives (as also ...

Matthias Recke – This raises the problem that because of the lack of dedicatory inscriptions, the local deity can hardly ever ...

chapter 59: Science as art – vice versa. Equating the donor with the person depicted is indeed probable in most cases, but not ...

Matthias Recke – condition of phimosis. Generally, caution is advised because of the absolute rarity of representations addres ...

chapter 59: Science as art – placed by the Etruscans on divination by entrails. Other interpretive models see the dedicating w ...

Matthias Recke – VOTIVES WITH OPEN BODY CAVITY From the various interpretive models in the research,^44 the statues and torsos ...

chapter 59: Science as art – Figure 59.15 View of male torso. Male torso with open abdominal cavity. Ingolstadt, Deutsches Med ...

Matthias Recke – in the Roman-Latin sphere, a specifi c custom for sacrifi cial rituals that was not practiced by Greeks or Et ...

chapter 59: Science as art – 2 The earliest examples of votive heads are found in Veii and Falerii. On the origin of Etruscan ...

Matthias Recke – divinities, Turfa 2006, 104. The contemporaneous growth in the popularity of anatomical votives led Pensabene ...

chapter 59: Science as art – 50 Normally, the polyvisceral plaques are not designated by gender. An important exception is a p ...

Matthias Recke – Castagnoli, F. et al. (1975) Lavinium II. Le tredici Are, Rome: De Luca. Coarelli, F. (ed.) (1986) Fregellae ...

chapter 59: Science as art – Söderlind, M. (2002) Late Etruscan Votive Heads from Tessennano. Production, Distribution, Socioh ...

CHAPTER SIXTY ANIMALS IN THE ETRUSCAN HOUSEHOLD AND ENVIRONMENT Adrian P. Harrison INTRODUCTION I t is now some 80 years since D ...

chapter 60: Animals in the Etruscan household – ...and death, to the Etruscan, was a pleasant continuance of life, with jewels ...

Adrian P. Harrison – Table 60.1 Classifi cation system adopted and animals listed. Classifi cation Animals A I dog, cat, cocke ...

chapter 60: Animals in the Etruscan household – Rome, Fiesole Museo Archeologico, Volterra Museo Guarnacci, Viterbo Museo Civi ...

Adrian P. Harrison – Figure 60.2a–v Examples of Etruscan animal motifs on an array of different artifacts and diverse material ...

chapter 60: Animals in the Etruscan household – Symbolism and mythology The majority of the animals used as motifs by the Etru ...