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xliimito, exhibition catalogue (Cortona 2009); Sacra Mirabilia Tesori da Castiglion Fiorentino, exhibition
catalogue (Florence 2010).
Erika Simon is Professor Emerita of Würzburg University, where she held the chair in Classical
Archaeology and served as director of the antiquities section of the Martin-von-Wegner Museum.
She is the author or editor of numerous articles in many fi elds of art history, Classics and ancient
history, and ancient myth and religion, as well as many books on Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art,
myth, religion and society, including Ara Pacis Augustae (1968), Festivals of Attica: an Archaeological
Commentary (1983), Schriften zur etruskischen und italischen Kunst und Religion (1996), and The
Religion of the Etruscans (2006, co-editor with Nancy Thomson de Grummond, q.v.). She has been
the recipient of numerous honors, including the Festschrift Kotinos (1992, Mainz: von Zabern).
Stephan Steingräber is from Munich and has studied Classical Archaeology, Etruscology, Ancient
History and Prehistory in Germany and Italy. He worked at the German Archaeological Institute
in Rome and has taught mainly at the universities of Munich, Mainz, Tokyo, Rome, Padova
and Foggia. He was visiting professor in Denmark, Italy and the United States, and lecturer for
the Getty Foundation and the Archaeological Institute of America. He is currently Professor of
Etruscology at the University of Roma Tre. His numerous publications deal mainly with the
historical topography, urbanism, architecture and tomb painting of Etruria and Southern Italy.
He is a member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi (Florence), the Accademia Etrusca (Cortona) and
the German Archaeological Institut (Berlin) and lives in the small Etruscan town of Barbarano
Romano north of Rome, where he is Director of the Archaeological Museum. Among his prize-
winning books and articles are: Etruskische Möbel (1979); Etruria: Städte, Heiligtümer, Nekropolen
(1981); Città e necropoli dell’Etruria (1983); Etruscan Painting: Catalogue raisonné of Etruscan wall
paintings (1986); Volterra (2002); and Abundance of Life: Etruscan Wall Painting (2006).
Simonetta Stopponi is Professor of Etruscology and Italic Antiquities at the University of Perugia,
and has also taught at the University of Macerata. She is the author of numerous monographs
and articles in specialized journals, covering various aspects of the discipline, and coordinating
exhibitions of Etruscan material (from Case e Palazzi d’Etruria [1985] and the Tomba della Scrofa
nera [1983] to the bucchero collection of the Museo C. Faina of Orvieto [with F. Capponi and
S. Ortenzi, 2006] and Museo comunale di Bettona. Raccolta archeologica [2011]). She is particularly
interested in the archaeology and antiquities of Perugia, Orvieto and the Picene territory. She has
directed territorial surveys and excavations at Orvieto, and since 2000 she has directed excavation
of the site of Campo della Fiera of Orvieto for the University of Perugia in collaboration with the
University of Macerata. The results of the survey are of great importance: according to the latest
evidence, the site of the federal sanctuary of the Etruscans, sought since the fi fteenth century, has
been found.
Jacopo Tabolli, born in Rome, has lived in both Italy and Egypt. He earned his BA and MA
in Archaeology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and is the youngest PhD candidate
in Etruscan Studies to have graduated there (2012). His PhD dissertation in Archaeology
(Etruscology), Along the borders of Veii and Ager Faliscus. The inhabited area and the necropoleis (Tufi and
Petrina) of Narce, between the fi rst Iron Age and the Orientalizing period, combined the study of more
than 170 tomb-groups with research in various archives, recovering unpublished documents of the
nineteenth-century excavations and enabling the re-identifi cation of famous tomb groups now in
Italy, Philadelphia, and elsewhere. He has published articles on the chronology and archaeology
of the Ager Faliscus and Internal Etruria in the First Iron Age and Orientalizing period. He has
participated in excavations in Italy, Tunisia and Cyprus, including fi eld projects of the Institute
of Etruscology (Populonia and Veii) and of the Department of Sciences of Antiquities (Palatine
Hill), since 2005. He supervised one sector within the excavation site of Veii Piazza d’Armi under