- Lisa C. Pieraccini –
20 For braziers found in tombs, see Pieraccini 2003: 32. For braziers found in an urban context,
see Pieraccini 2006.
21 Serra Ridgway 2010.
22 Turfa 2005: no. 124–135.
23 Blanck 1987: esp. 115–116.
24 Pieraccini 2003; Bellelli, forthcoming.
25 Few, if any, images survive of Etruscans actually eating.
26 For sanctuaries see Colonna 1985; de Grummond and Edlund-Berry eds. 2011 offers an up to
date bibliography of sanctuaries and ritual in Etruria.
27 Bellelli forthcoming.
28 Bellelli forthcoming. For the goddess VEI, see N. T. de Grummond 2006: 112.
29 Scheffer 1982: 67 n. 289.
30 Bellelli forthcoming.
31 Wiman and Backe-Forsberg 2008: 19–20.
32 Ibid 19. In addition, fascinating evidence from the hut pits discovered at Satricum contributes
to our knowledge of ritual meals in early Latin domestic cults. See Maaskant-Kleibrink 1995.
33 Pieraccini 2003: 173; Pieraccini forthcoming.
34 Pieraccini forthcoming.
35 Pieraccini forthcoming.
36 Carpino 2008: Tombs 5859, 5862 were found with egg-shell. Corriere della Sera reported eggs
found in an Etruscan tomb near Grosseto, “Uova travate in una tomba etrusca,”novembre 2,
2011.
37 Scheffer 1987: 97–103.
38 Barker and Rasmussen 1998: 192.
39 Barker and Rasmussen 1998: 193. Blanck (1987, 115) refers to this not as a basket but as a
cushion.
40 Ridgway 1997: 325.
41 Ridgway 1997; 2008; 2009; forthcoming.
42 Ridgway 2009: 699–791.
43 Riva 1999: 332. Riva discusses the aristocratic lifestyles of Mediterranean elites and their
deep connection to Homeric epics. See also Ridgway 1997; 2009; forthcoming.
44 Ridgway 1997: 326. See also the comedies of Aristophanes (Wasps, Birds, Lysistrata) for
references to cheese graters.
45 Ridgway 2009: 790.
46 Ridgway 2008: 1; 1997, 331ff; forthcoming.
47 Ridgway 2008; forthcoming.
48 Turfa 2005: no. 34.
49 de Grummond 2009: 57, no. 18, fi g. 18.
50 Ciacci and Zifferero 2005; Crisofani 1987; Pieraccini 2011.
51 For the ritual use of food see Lindsay 1998: esp. 70. With regard to food found in tombs,
namely eggs, see Pieraccini 2003: 171–173 and Pieraccini (forthcoming).
52 This may force us to rethink the way in which we interpret banquet imagery, funerary feasts
and ritual meals.
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