- List of contributors –
xlMinore di Vetulonia,” in Deliciae Fictiles IV, Atti del Convegno Internazionale sul tema “Terrecotte
architettoniche dell’Italia antica. Immagini di dei, mostri ed eroi (Roma-Siracusa, 21–25 October 2009),
P. S. Lulof and C. Rescigno (eds), Oxford 2010, 236–241; “Terrecotte architettoniche a Roselle
con fregi fi gurati: gli epigoni dei sistemi decorativi di I fase ?” (“Architectural Terracottas with
Relief Friezes from Roselle: The Epigones of the “First Phase” Decorative Systems?”), in Tetti di
terracotta. la decorazione architettonica fttile tra Etruria e lazio in età arcaica, Atti delle Giornate di Studio
(Sapienza, Università di Roma, 25 March and 25 October 2010), Offi cina Etuscologia, semestrale
d’archeologia, Rome 2011.
Tom B. Rasmussen recently retired as Senior Lecturer and Head of Art History and Visual Studies
at the University of Manchester. He took a PhD in Classical Archaeology at Cambridge under the
direction of Robert Cook, with a dissertation published as Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria
(1979, reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2006). With Nigel Spivey and in honor of Robert
Cook, he co-edited the book Looking at Greek Vases (CUP 1991, Greek translation 1997). Before
coming to Manchester, he was a fellow of the Institute of Archaeology in Ankara, traveling in the
Phrygian, Hittite and Urartian highlands and the Levant. A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries,
he has taught Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Near Eastern art and archaeology, and participated in
excavations in Italy, France and England, including the projects of the British School at Rome,
especially the Tuscania survey project. His numerous publications include Archaeological Reports
(1985, 1995), The Macmillan Dictionary of Art (now Grove Dictionary), as editor, and co-authored
fascicules of the CSE, the corpus of Etruscan mirrors. With Graeme Barker he published the
well known The Etruscans (Blackwell, 1998). Recent works include: “Etruscan urbanization,” in
Mediterranean Urbanization 800–600 BC (R. Osborne and B. Cunliffe (eds), Oxford 2005: 71–90)
and “Herakles’ apotheosis in Etruria and Greece,” Antike Kunst 48 (2005) 30–39.
Annette Rathje, Associate professor of Classical Archaeology at the Saxo Institute and of
Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek and Latin and History of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark,
she has participated in several excavations in Central Italy and has written numerous articles about
Etruscan and Italic culture in Pre-Roman Italy, including major works on Near Eastern imports in
Etruria, and on the tradition of the banquet. She is particularly interested in the interconnection,
interaction and communication amongst the peoples of the Mediterranean in the ninth to sixth
centuries bc.
Matthias Recke is a classical archaeologist and Curator of the Antikensammlung of the Justus-
Liebig-Universität in Giessen, Germany. He has published a book on the attitude of the Greeks
to the phenomenon of war, and various articles on archaic sculpture and ancient pottery. Other
research interests include acculturation phenomena in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages in the
eastern Mediterranean (Pamphylia and Cyprus). Since 2011 he has been Field Director of the
archaeological excavations of Hala Sultan Tekke in Cyprus. In the course of his museum duties,
he has produced numerous publications on the history of research and on reception of antiquity
in modern art. In 2008 he organized an exhibition on the Etruscan anatomical votive terracottas
in the Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum in Ingolstadt (published, with Waltrud Wamser-
Krasznai, as Kultische Anatomie [Ingolstadt, 2008]).
Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture and
a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. She graduated from Pomona College
and earned Master’s and PhD degrees in Greek literature and Classical Archaeology at Bryn Mawr
College. She is the author of the books Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic (Farrar, Straus, and
Giroux, 2008); The Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe; The Culture of the High Renaissance:
Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth Century Rome; The Roman Garden of Agostino Chigi, Horst Gerson
Memorial Lecture (University of Groningen, 2005); The Scarith of Scornello: a Tale of Renaissance