- Margherita Gilda Scarpellini –
Figure 57.8 Putto from Montecchio (second century bc). Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.
Inv. no. CO4 (Archivio fotografi co Istituzione Culturale ed Educativa Castiglionese, Castiglion
Fiorentino, Arezzo).Figure 57.9a–b Kouros from Arezzo: Fonte Veneziana (530–510 bc). Florence, Museo Archeologico
Nazionale. Inv. no. 68 (after Cristofani 1985, Figure 3.2). Kore from Arezzo: Fonte Veneziana (520–500
bc). Florence, Museo Archeologico Nazionale. Inv. no. 264 (after Cristofani 1985, Figure 3.13).Etruria and the Po valley. In fact, into the small lake, which is fed by an underground
spring, and tied to sanatio (healing)^39 were thrown directly hundreds of votive bronzes,
dated from the late sixth century bc to the Republican period. The sacred place was
visited by soldiers and shepherds as part of transhumance, as is shown by the discovery
in 1838^40 of more than 600 bronzes of males, females, and anatomical parts, about 1,000
pieces of aes rude and 2,000 arrow heads and javelin points that were scattered between
local collections and large museums abroad.