- chapter 8: A long twilight –
Figure 8.17 Until the end of the Hellenistic period, and for about two centuries, votive deposits in
Etruria and Latium are characterized by a great number of anatomical ex-votos in terracotta offered to
different gods by members of the popular classes, both Etruscan and Roman. These objects depict all
the parts of the human body, as well as animals; in certain cases, such as at here in the territory of Vulci,
one assumes that the dedicant was Roman because he is veiled, while the Etruscans had the custom of
sacrifi cing with head bare (votive deposit of Tessennano; Costantini 1995, pl. 2b). See Chapter 59 for
more examples.Figure 8.18 To the agrarian crisis of the end of the second century and the beginning of the following
century, that one attributes the migration of a group of Etruscan farmers to the north-east
of Tunisia, in the Oued Miliane, where they marked the borders of their fi elds by placing in the
ground a series of inscribed cippi, according to the custom of their homeland
(Tunis, Musée du Bardo; Rasenna, Fig. 255).