- List of contributors –
xxxixMatteo Milletti, a researcher in Etruscology, has collaborated for many years with the Cattedra
di Etruscologia dell’Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” in the archaeological excavations of the
site of Populonia-Poggio del Telegrafo (Livorno) and is also part of the Italian team excavating
in Corsica at Cuciurpula-Serra di Scopamena/Sorbollano and at Puzzonu-Quenza (Corse-du-Sud).
He is currently participating in several research projects, including analysis of fi nds from the site
of Veii-Piazza d’Armi (University of Rome “La Sapienza”), and on results of excavations by the
Soprintendenza Archeologica della Toscana in the necropolis of Populonia-S. Cerbone. Since 2011
he has held a position as teaching assistant at the Università degli Studi of Siena. He has published
numerous articles and edited proceedings of congresses, study seminars and exhibitions. In recent
years he has devoted special attention to the analysis of the relations of Etruscan civilization with
that of the great islands of the Tyrrhenian Sea during the Iron Age.
Helen (Ili) Nagy is Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Puget Sound. She is
an expert on Etruscan votive terracottas and has been involved for many years with the study of
Etruscan mirrors. Her publications include a book, Votive terracottas from the ‘Vignaccia’, Cerveteri, in
the Lowie Museum of Anthropology (Rome 1988) and articles on Greek sculpture, Etruscan terracottas
and mirrors. She is currently fi nishing a co-edited (with Larissa Bonfante, q.v.) volume of the
collection of antiquities at the American Academy in Rome.
Marjatta Nielsen earned her PhD from the University of Helsinki with a thesis on the late
Etruscan funerary sculpture of Volterra, and has given lectures on Etruscan culture and ancient
art at universities in Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Her research interests cover various aspects
of the Etruscan civilization, with special emphasis on late Etruscan funerary art, women and
family tombs, as well as the reception of classical art in later times. She has been co-editor of Acta
Hyperborea, Danish Studies in Classical Archaeology, and co-organizer of exhibitions on the Etruscans
at Volterra (1985 and 2007) and Helsinki (2003).
Lisa C. Pieraccini received her PhD at the University of California Santa Barbara under the
guidance of Mario A. Del Chiaro. Pieraccini lived in Rome for many years where she taught
and conducted research at the Etruscan site of Cerveteri. Upon her return to the US in 2006 she
taught for Stanford University and since 2007 has been teaching at the University of California
Berkeley. Active at the southern Etruscan site known today as Cerveteri, her research interests and
publications include Etruscan archaic pottery, burial customs, wall painting and the reception of
the Etruscans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is a member of the Istituto di Studi
Etruschi ed Italici. Her book, Around the Hearth: Caeretan Cylinder-Stamped Braziers (2003) is the
fi rst comprehensive study of a unique class of over 350 Etruscan braziers. She is currently working
on a book dedicated to ancient Caere.
Simona Rafanelli, Etruscologist, has been, since 2002, Director of the Museo Civico Archeologico
“Isidoro Falchi” of Vetulonia. In 2009 she re-opened the excavations of the Etruscan-Roman
city of Vetulonia, exposing a new, exceptionally well-preserved domus (aristocratic house). In the
Vetulonia Museum she has curated exhibitions on a variety of topics: Etruscan gold and amber
jewelry, the Tomb of the Trident and the Tomba del Duce of Vetulonia, “Vetulonia at the center
of the Mediterranean,” “Ships of bronze, from the Nuragic sanctuaries to the Etruscan tumuli of
Vetulonia,” and (2012) “The inimitable model. Paths between Etruscan civilization, Oenotrians
and Daunians.” Her latest book, co-authored by Paola Spaziani, is Etruschi. Il privilegio della bellezza
(“Etruscans: The privilege of beauty,” Aboca Edizioni, 2011). She has published numerous articles
on Etruscan archaeology, Vetulonia, and Etruscan religious rituals and art, including “Cippi in
pietra confi gurati a testa umana dall’agro volsiniese,” in E. Pellegrini and S. Rafanelli “Vecchie
scoperte e recenti indagini a Bolsena,” Archaeologiae, Research by Foreign Missions in Italy, VI, 1–2,
2008, G. M. Della Fina (ed.), Pisa-Rome 2011; “Un nucleo di altorilievi frontonali dall’Arce