xlvPREFACE
Jean MacIntosh Turfa
W
e walk in the footsteps of giants, the many scholars who have preceded us in the study of
ancient Etruria and Italy, and whose works you will fi nd frequently cited in this volume.
We honor several of our colleagues who have recently been lost but will be remembered
wherever Etruscan civilization is studied:
Claudia Giontella, Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway and David Ridgway, Antonella Romualdi,
Brian Shefton, Paola Zamarchi Grassi.
This volume would not have been possible without the assistance of many colleagues and friends,
especially Amy Davis-Poynter, Ingrid Edlund-Berry and Stephanie Budin, Nancy Thomson de
Grummond, Larissa Bonfante, Rex Wallace, Greg Warden, Margarita Gleba and Cynthia Reed;
and the advice and encouragement of all the authors, especially Gilda Bartoloni, Giovannangelo
Camporeale, Richard De Puma, Fulvia Lo Schiavo, Erika Simon, Stephan Steingräber, Jacopo
Tabolli, and the late David Ridgway; and the many individuals, institutions, and museums that
have assisted with information, images, etc. A number of scholars who were not able to share in the
writing of this book have assisted and encouraged in other ways: Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri, Fiona
Campbell, Sybille Haynes, Ellen Macnamara, Georgina Muskett, John Prag, Judith Swaddling.