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xliiithe direction of Professor Gilda Bartoloni. He is currently a research fellow at Sapienza University
of Rome and involved in several research projects: publications of Veii-Piazza d’Armi excavation
campaigns 2000–2012, Veii Grotta Gramiccia necropolis, in collaboration with ISCIMA –
National Council of Research, and the Cori-ancient polygonal walls project.
Jean-Paul Thuillier was an Etruscologist at the École française de Rome and is now Professor of
Classics at the École normale supérieure, Paris. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of
Les jeux athlétiques dans la civilisation étrusque (Rome, École française de Rome, BEFAR, 1985), Sport
im antiken Rom (Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1999), Les Etrusques. La fi n d’un
mystère? (Paris, Gallimard-Découvertes, 1992), Les Etrusques. Histoire d’un peuple (Paris, Armand
Colin, 2003), and with W. Decker Le sport dans l’Antiquité. Egypte, Grèce, Rome (Paris, Editions
Picard, 2004) and Les Etrusques (Paris, Editions du Chêne, Grandes civilisations, 2006).
Fredrik Tobin is a PhD candidate in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala
University in Sweden, where he is writing a dissertation on the tombs of San Giovenale. He holds
a Master’s degree in Classical archaeology and ancient history as well as an undergraduate degree
in Church music from the University of Gothenburg and a Master’s degree in Organ performance
and literature from the Eastman School of Music, Rochester NY.
Jean MacIntosh Turfa received her PhD in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology and Latin
from Bryn Mawr College, and has participated in excavations in the US and abroad, including
the Corinth excavations of the American School of Classical Studies and the Bryn Mawr Etruscan
excavations at Poggio Civitate (Murlo). She has taught in the US and abroad (Universities of
Liverpool, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, Loyola University, Dickinson University, Bryn Mawr
College, and St. Joseph’s University). She was a consultant for the permanent reinstallation of
the Kyle M. Phillips Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, where she is
currently a Rodney Young Research Fellow. She has published extensively on various topics of
Etruscan culture, including architecture and shipbuilding, trade and the Etruscan-Punic alliance,
anatomical votives and health in Etruria, votive offerings and divination in Etruscan and Italic
religion, and has appeared on television programs for the History and Discovery channels. Her
books include A Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum (2005)
and Divining the Etruscan World: The Brontoscopic Calendar and Religious Practice (Cambridge, 2012),
which formed the topic of the British Museum’s Eva Lorant Memorial Lecture, which she delivered
in 2011. She is a member of the Archaeological Institute of America and American Philological
Association, and a foreign member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici.
Ingela M. B. Wiman is currently an Associate Professor at the Swedish Institute in Rome.
Her commission is to conduct research and create a thematic course on the Etruscans and their
civilization for a two-year period. She is affi liated with the department of Historical Studies at
the University of Gothenburg and a member of the scientifi c committee of the Corpus Speculorum
Etruscorum (CSE) where she aims to publish the Etruscan mirrors stored in Sweden and Norway.
She has written many works on Etruscan mirrors and natural resource management, both Etruscan
and worldwide.
Nancy A. Winter received her PhD in Classical Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College and
was a librarian of the Blegen Library at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens,
Greece. While in Athens, she organized and edited the proceedings of two conferences on Greek
architectural terracottas, and published Greek Architectural Terracottas from the Prehistoric to the End of
the Archaic Period (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology, Oxford 1993). She later published
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640–510
B.C. (Supplement to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 9, Ann Arbor 2009). Some of