- List of contributors –
xxxvThe Iron Age and Etruscan Vases in the Olcott Collection at Columbia University (Philadelphia 1980),
The Gods and the Place: Location and Function of Sanctuaries in the Countryside of Etruria and Magna
Graecia (700–400 B.C.) (Stockholm 1987), The Seated and Standing Statue Akroteria from Poggio
Civitate (Murlo) (Rome 1992), with Lucy Shoe Meritt, Etruscan and Republican Roman Mouldings,
(New York and Rome 2000); edited papers and books: “Architectural Theory and Practice:
Readings of Vitruvius,” Memoirs of the American Academy 50 (2005) 1–86, with Giovanna Greco
and John Kenfi eld, Deliciae Fictiles III: Architectural Terracottas in Ancient Italy: New Discoveries and
Interpretations (Oxford 2006), with Nancy T. de Grummond, The Archaeology of sanctuaries and ritual
in Etruria (Portsmouth RI, 2011), articles, biographical essays, and book reviews.
Adriana Emiliozzi, a student of the famous Etruscologist Massimo Pallottino, graduated in 1971,
and has made her career at the National Research Council (Rome). Today she is senior researcher at
the Institute for the Study of Italic and Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations (ISCIMA). She took
part in the publication of the corpus of bronze Praenestine Cistae and in the organization of the
international Corpus of Etruscan Mirrors (CSE). She reorganized and published the archaeological
collections of the Civic Museum of Viterbo, renewing its galleries in 1994. With the exhibition
Carri da Guerra e prìncipi etruschi she has opened new horizons for the study of the “culture of
princes” in ancient Italy, and made fresh analyses of famous monuments, including the Chariot
of Monteleone di Spoleto (Metropolitan Museum, New York), newly reconstructed in 2007 and
published in 2011. She has made contributions to epigraphy and prosopography, Etruscan and
Roman, as well as archaeology in general.
Françoise Gaultier is Deputy Director of the Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman
Antiquities of the Musée du Louvre. She holds a doctorate from the University of Paris X-Nanterre
and was formerly a member of the École Française de Rome. Since 1981 she has been a curator
for the Etruscan collections and has also taught at the École du Louvre. She has written a number
of books and articles on Etruscan antiquities and the history of the Louvre Etruscan collections
and has organized the following exhibitions: “Les Etrusques et l’Europe” (Paris, Grand Palais,
September 1992–January 1993; Berlin, Altes Museum, February–May 1993) in conjunction with
M. Pallottino and G. Camporeale; “Trésors Antiques, les bijoux de la collection Campana” (Paris,
Musée du Louvre, October 2005–January 2006; Rome, Musei Capitolini, March–July 2006) with
C. Metzger; and “Gli Etruschi dall’Arno al Tevere, le collezioni del Louvre a Cortona” (Cortona,
MAEC, March–July 2011) with L. Haumesser.
David B. George holds degrees in Art History/Archaeology from the University of Missouri-
Columbia, and received his MA and PhD in Classical Studies at the Ohio State University. Since
1995 he has been Professor of Classics and Chair of the Classics Department at St. Anselm College
(Manchester, New Hampshire), and Director of its Institute for Mediterranean Archaeology. He
is (with Claudio Bizzarri, q.v.) Co-Director of the Excavations at Coriglia, Castel Viscardo, in the
territory of Orvieto, where he is studying an Etruscan settlement. He teaches Latin, Greek, Hebrew,
ancient history and archaeology, and has published extensively on various problems in ancient
history and Classics, and on scientifi c applications (such as XRF technology) for archaeological
excavations, for which he has been awarded numerous grants. He has appeared in interviews on the
television History Channel and advised on scripts for topics including the lives of Hannibal, Moses,
Caesar, and for the television series “Battles bc” and “Clash of the Gods.”
Claudio Giardino (PhD) is a researcher at the University of Salento, Lecce, and a member of
several archaeological missions, in Italy and abroad. His interest focuses on archaeometallurgy
and on the interaction between metals and society in antiquity. His publications include the
books Il Mediterraneo occidentale fra il XVI e l’VIII sec. a.C. Cerchie minerarie e metallurgiche – West