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xxxivsite of Cetamura del Chianti. Among her books are A Guide to Etruscan Mirrors (1982, which
included an international exhibition at FSU) and Etruscan Myth, Sacred History and Legend (2006).
With Erika Simon, she chaired the Langford Conference “The Religion of the Etruscans,” and
has edited the book of the same title (2006, with Erika Simon). She is directing the International
Etruscan Sigla Project with Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni (q.v.).
Maria Anna De Lucia Brolli, a student of Massimo Pallottino, graduated in 1975 with honors in
Etruscology and Italic Antiquities from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” with a thesis on the
manufacture of Archaic architectural terracottas. She joined the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività
Culturali, serving with the Naples Museo Archeologico Nazionale and the Soprintendenza per i
Beni Archeologici del Lazio. Since 1983 she has been an offi cial with the Soprintendenza per i Beni
Archeologici dell’Etruria meridionale, responsible for the protection of antiquities in the Faliscan
territory (Narce, Falerii, Corchiano, Vignanello). She is Director of the Museo Archeologico
dell’Agro Falisco in the Forte Sangallo of Civita Castellana, and has also been responsible for the
reinstallation of the Faliscan galleries in the Villa Giulia Museum and for many other exhibitions.
She has directed numerous excavations, including the defi nitive studies (and protection) of
sanctuaries at Narce (Monte Li Santi-Le Rote), Falerii (Scasato II and via Gramsci sites) and the
Underworld shrine at Grotta Porciosa. Her publications include L’Agro Falisco (Rome, 1991) and
Civita Castellana: Il Museo Archeologico dell’Agro Falisco (Rome, 1991), and articles such as, with
M. P. Baglione, “Le deposizioni infantili nell’agro falisco tra vecchi e nuovi scavi,” Scienze
dell’Antichità 14 (2007–2008) 869–893.
Richard Daniel De Puma is the F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classical
Art and Archaeology, University of Iowa, where he taught for more than 35 years. He earned his BA
at Swarthmore College, and holds both an MA and PhD in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
from Bryn Mawr. He is an elected member of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici in
Florence, a member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Berlin, and Research Associate
at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He has organized exhibitions on Etruscan
pottery and Roman portraits, and was Senior Curatorial Consultant for the exhibition “Art in
Roman Life: Villa to Grave” at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Most recently he collaborated
on the major permanent reinstallation of the Etruscan Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York and contributed to the guidebook, Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, in 2007. His catalogue, Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will appear
in 2013. For many years Professor De Puma was on the Advisory Board of the American Journal of
Archaeology and continues to serve on the Advisory Board of Etruscan Studies. He has been a long-
time lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America, and conducted archaeological fi eldwork
in Italy, Turkey and India, and most recently co-directed excavations at Latin Crustumerium. He
is the author of ten books (three on Etruscan mirrors) and more than 70 articles on various aspects
of Etruscan and Roman art and archaeology. His book on Art in Roman Life was published in 2009.
Rubens D’Oriano, born at La Maddalena (province of Sassari, Sardinia), graduated from the
University of Pisa in 1978 and joined the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle province di
Sassari e Nuoro (Sardinia) as an archaeologist, conducting excavations and research and publishing
studies on Sardinia in the eighth century bc to the fi fth century ad, especially on commercial and
cultural contacts of the island with the rest of the Mediterranean.
Ingrid Edlund-Berry is Professor Emerita in the Department of Classics, The University of Texas
at Austin. She received her phil. lic. degree at the University of Lund and PhD at Bryn Mawr
College and has taught at the University of Georgia, University of Minnesota, the Intercollegiate
Center in Rome, and the University of Texas at Austin. Her excavation experience includes Poggio
Civitate (Murlo), S. Angelo Vecchio (Metaponto), and Morgantina. Her publications include books: