The Etruscan World (Routledge Worlds)

• Rubens D’Oriano and Antonio Sanciu –

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Settlement areas

Phoenicians

Greeks

Etruscans

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Olbia

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Figure 12.12 Olbia between the spheres of Phoenician, Greek and Etruscan settlement around 630 bc.

Figure 12.13 Greek cup (kotyle) for drinking wine, from Greek Olbia (about 600 bc).

abandon; Carthage does this as much to check the growing power of Rome, with a treaty
signed in 509 bc permitting them to land freely on these shores. In this new defi nition
of spheres of power, hitherto unknown in the Western Mediterranean for clarity and
scope, the relationships between the Etruscans and Sardinia, which in time will become
increasingly “Punic”, will continue in ways and forms in part similar to the past and
partly different, but certainly diminished in quantity.

PUNIC SARDINIA AND THE ETRUSCANS

(ANTONIO SANCIU)

In the last decades of the sixth century bc Carthage took possession of Sardinia, occupying
the Phoenician cities and, more generally, the coastal landing points. The conquest of
the island, which corresponded to the entrance of Corsica into the sphere of infl uence
of the Etruscans, completely changed the political and economic landscape in this part